Quotes About Freedom

Please use your liberty to promote ours

Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.

Describing his technique to Robert Frost, Clarke said I load myself down with chains and try to wriggle free.

Little Red Riding Hood was a good story, but it wasn't interactive. Sooner or later I wanted to say 'no, I may be Red Riding Hood but I don't care about my grandmother; what I want is heroin and only heroin,' whereas the game had only 'over the river and through the woods' to offer me. Which was a good story, it just might not me mine.

Who is John Galt?

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way , when and if you are an architect?" "Yes." "My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others. - Howard Roark

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.