Quotes About Freedom

To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War - when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

America takes credit for giving you freedom that you had anyway. It's like going to a wedding and putting your tag on somebody elses box.

Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the church a free man.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.

A divorce party - that's really better than a wedding party

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

If you love a bird don't hold it too tightly or you'll soon be nursing a broken heart.

Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever.

The past has no power over the present moment.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.