Quotes About Freedom

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Give me that man That is not passion's slave.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Poets have a license to lie.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter and handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind; freedom, a rarely acquired characteristic.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

If there were any justice in the world, people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change.

In the world of mules there are no rules.

Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.