Quotes About Freedom

Freedom means having the right to freely educate your children, and freely means no obligation to send them in a public school, where teachers want to inculcate principles different from the principles that their parents want to inculcate them in a familiar context.

But it was too late. I was down the steps and out the door, where the warm night air almost felt like forgiveness.

You can burn down my churches. But I shall be free.

America is basically about freedom.

Persuading your brain to become a little wilder is like trying to persuade a starving man to take a snack.

Freedom is a dangerous word, just because it is an inspirational one.

The great citizen, the first-born son of the New World.

I, for one, do not wish to live in a world where everything is planned: I would much rather have liberty to make a fool of myself than become an ideal citizen by regulation. - George Taylor

There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of action and expression; the "victimless" nature of homosexual relations; and the many valuable contributions that gays and lesbians make to society.

Shall not one line lament our forest race, Struck out for you from wild creation's face Freedom-the selfsame freedom you adore-Bade us defend our violated shore.

While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity.

The truth might set you free, but there's nothing that says you have to be grateful.

And we all have the right to go to Hell in our own way.

That was the real triumph of the revolution, Napoleon thought with a slight nod. A man might rise as high as any on the basis of merit alone, and not because of some accident of birth. That was why France would win, in the end. For what nation could hope to stand against a nation of men free to pursue their ambitions?

The exodus from the flood valley of the Nile, the end of foreign enslavement, was presented by the Bible writers as the condition of becoming fully Israelite.

5 THE POET AND THE PRIESTHOOD The boy of sixteen from Gori, accustomed to the freedom of fighting in the streets or climbing Gorijvari, now found himself locked for virtually every hour of the day in an institution that more resembled the most repressive nineteenth-century English public-school than a religious academy:

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

But sometimes, when confronted by something of unfathomable beauty, the bars of the cage around us begin to tremble. So I ran away to protect myself and remained a prisoner.

See - this book belongs to you,' Hannah said sweetly. 'No young lady,' the birdman said. 'It belongs to you - but you don't belong to it.' He leaned in very close to her. 'You belong to you,' he said.

But how do you find the right people-how do you love without smothering them? How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

Up here on this forgotten elbow of land, I have nothing to lose, and though I am more afraid now than I have ever been, I am relieved, I am unburdened, I am ascending.

Now on a sloping meadow hours into a fresh day, he found himself a desperate man, struggling to free himself from the shackles of a life he had not pursued. And her voice trickled through him, an icicle perpetually melting.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can't change.

But sometimes you have to break rules because nothing is perfect.