Quotes About Freedom

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.

I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.

Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.