Quotes About Freedom

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

In the main it is not by introspection but by reflecting on our living in common with others that we come to know ourselves. What is revealed? It is an original creation. Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Independence is happiness.

No man may make another free.

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

The proverb warns that "You should not bite that hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

They have rights who dare defend them.

He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you that you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.