Quotes About Freedom

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.

When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. That's why we'll win.

I am a free man, the slave of Christ.

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.

No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.

Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to put chains on your body, because the chains are on your mind.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to run out in all conceivable schemes and methods of labour for the souls of men.

The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.

May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.