Quotes About Freedom

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

I love living my life in flip-flops. I met a guy in the islands a while ago who told me he hadn't worn a pair of shoes in three years! I thought, 'Man, that's the life!'

It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

Darius was clearly of the opinion That the air is also man's dominion, And that, with paddle or fins or pinion, We soon or late Shall navigate The azure, as now we sail the sea.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free.

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.