Quotes About Freedom

Where the Wild Things Are was not meant to please everybody – only children. A letter from a seven-year-old boy encourages me to think that I have reached children as I had hoped. He wrote: 'How much does it cost to get to where the wild things are? If it is not expensive my sister and I want to spend the summer there. Please answer soon.' I did not answer that question, for I have no doubt that sooner or later they will find their way, free of charge.

It happened that at the late age of twenty-seven I had run away from home. High time, you might say; but rebels can't always be choosers.

Different eras—like us. John Philpot Curran, Irish judge and orator?" She just stared at him. "I'm paraphrasing," Reeder said, "but in essence, Curran said the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power." James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America. Served 1809–1817. Known as the "Father of the Constitution" for contributions to the drafting of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind." —Thomas Paine (Common Sense, 1776), American political activist at the time of the Revolutionary War.

When even one American—who has done nothing wrong—is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth—then all Americans are in peril." Harry S. Truman, thirty-third President of the United States of America. Served 1945–1953.

My body is no longer his temple.

You've delegated the ability to make up your mind.

I will not be what I was made, but what I make.

America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France, where the Government isn't privatized, they still have to pay tax and do whatever the Government says, which would really suck. In USA countries, we respect individual rights and let people do whatever they want.

somewhere along the line, this freedom stuff got way out of control.

She looked at her note cards and took a breath. Why I Love America, by Hayley McDonald's. America is the greatest group of countries in the world because we have freedom. In countries like France, where the Government isn't privatized, they still have to pay tax and do whatever the Government says, which would really suck. In USA countries, we respect individual rights and let people do whatever they want.

If these guys had all the money, John wondered, who could stop them doing whatever they wanted?

I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased--short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

Suppose he went to the Bursar, obtained an exeat, fled straight to London!

Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it.

Fear and anxiety. I've lived with the latter all my life. Now it's gone.

From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine.

You spoiled children think that democracy is a God-given right! You expect it, you demand it! Well, now you're going to have a chance to practice it!

I tried to go back online. Isn't that funny? All I could think about was trying to escape again, getting back to my world, being safe.

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naïve and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles. To see Uncle Sam going back on his word, revoking people's private lives, revoking their freedom…

It's great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl

Go into the woods to lose sight and memory of the crimes of your contemporaries. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

It's great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl.