Quotes About Freedom

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

The free man is a warrior.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

It is only in the mountains that I can fully appreciate my existence as a man in America, and my own native land

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.