Quotes About Freedom

Coercion. The unpardonable crime.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Letting people be okay without us is how we get to be okay without them.

Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.

Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way, without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs, digest the food, and shovel the shit out.

America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways; but even if it won't do those things, it remains the least constrained society on earth.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.

Curfew must not ring tonight.

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

A cat may look at a king.

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.