Quotes About Freedom

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.