Quotes About Freedom

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

Who walketh upon the wings of the wind.

Retirement must be wonderful. I mean, you can suck in your stomach for only so long.

Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

Ages 60+. — Picasso said to me the other day: "One starts to get young at the age of sixty — and then it's too late." Only then does one start to feel free; only then has one learned to strip oneself down to one's essential creative simplicity...

Self-reliance is very excellent, but as for independence, there is no such thing.

There can be no such thing as justice unless there are freedom and equal conditions; there can be no such thing as equality unless there is freedom.

The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman's life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.

Against abortion? Don't have one.

We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual. That, in fact, she has a constitutional right to make that decision for herself and that the state has shown no interest in interfering with that decision.

Addiction is giving up everything for one thing. Recovery is giving up one thing for everything.

Addiction is an anchor that won't break out.

If you let go of the things you're addicted to, your pains will let go of you.