Quotes About Freedom

Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains.

Necessity has no law.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Time is a tyranny to be abolished.

O, for an engine to keep back all clocks!

And that was victory. The freedom to sprawl loosely upon a city street, heat his coffee and eat a can of beans ... with no enemy bullets forcing him to toss the can aside while diving behind another wall for momentary survival.

If someone said, "Write a sentence about your life," I'd write, "I want to go outside and play."

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Buffet: A French word that means "get up and get it yourself."

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.

When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty, or go to a concert when I like.

I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.