Quotes About Freedom

Part of the magic of childhood for most of us, looking back, was the sensation of freedom in your own body - the feeling that these legs were made for skipping.

Girls eat better when food stops being something forbidden.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

Make men large and strong, and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that which is lawful and best.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

God's whole nature moves toward the man who wants to be free from sin, as broadly and irresistibly as the summer moves from the south toward the north.

People who pay attention to what matters most in their lives, and who learn to ignore everything else, assume a freedom that is highly creative as well as potentially dangerous in contemporary society. Having abandoned everything of insignificance, they have nothing to lose. Apart from being faithful to their God, they no longer care what happens to them.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

I would never want to force you to do something you don't want to do, I don't ever want to take something from you that you don't want to give me.

When she was reading she wasn't the quiet Sullivan twin, she wasn't the one no one ever noticed. She became a princess in a castle. Or a clown juggling under the circus big top. She explored jungles on elephants' backs and took trips to Mars on spaceships. Reading took her anywhere she wanted to go. And Sophie found that she wanted to go absolutely everywhere.

The freedom to be single, to create a path through life that does not look like everyone else's, can be unsettling to people who feel more secure with fewer choices.

The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of reduced social inhibition and increased freedom to select one's mental and physical activities.

The freedom to be single, to create a path through life that does not look like everyone else's, can be unsettling to people who feel more secure with fewer choices.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

it's all over! Whatever happens, it's over. I don't have to worry about anything anymore!

I'd been warned in advance, so I'd given it some thought. When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.

Libertarians and criminals complain about the surveillance state when they see a camera. Police officers complain about it when they don't.