Quotes About Freedom

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

It is better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

All life is a gamble, and every man must choose his own risks.

How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?

If America is about anything, she is about freedom. We have seen in the burgeoning Department of Homeland Security and at our airports and in the color-coded alerts the beginning of the erosion of that freedom.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls -- even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls -- without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

All people seem to do is the best they can to get along and have a good time; and if that means keeping what they've got, they're liable to become fascists; and if it means trying to get what they need and don't have, there's a good chance of their learning the Internationale.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Those who have destroyed the roots of jealousy have peace of mind always.

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe.

A wise and salutary neglect.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence.

When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no piazza - a deficiency the more regretted, because not only did I like piazzas, as somehow combining the coziness of in-doors with the freedom of out-doors, and it is so pleasant to inspect your thermometer there, but the country round about was such a picture, that in berry time no boy climbs hill or crosses vale without coming upon easels planted in every nook, and sunburnt painters painting there.

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?

I stand alone here upon an open sea, with two oceans and a whole continent between me and law.