Quotes About Freedom

So few people recognize me, I can do what anyone does.

But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.

These zealots for disarming individual Americans choose not to recognize the basic notion that defines American freedom: the difference between a good guy with a gun and a bad guy with a gun.

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

For us, driving is not what we are looking for, but being in the driver's seat of our only destiny. That means ending guardianship in Saudi Arabia, which means recognizing women as full citizens.

I like not having a job, not having to get up early in the morning is awesome. I would recommend it to anybody.

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

I want to reconnect to my animal life.

At 18, I took a Greyhound bus to New York City, and then I was in city after city, so I was just dying to get to the country. Everywhere I'd go, I'd just shoot out to a national park somewhere and reconnect.

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

There's something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free and were going through Reconstruction. It was like, what do you do now? There was nothing set up.

I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

I'll go on record and say it's way more fun riding in front of a cop car then riding in the back cuz you can get out if you want to.

There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'

I don't have a record deal, I'm not looking for one, I don't have a manager, I'm not promoting anything.

You can be more creative when you're not feeling like a slave. When you're on a record label, they have you like that.

I made this record without a record label.

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

I feel like some artists need a record label, and some don't.

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.