Quotes About Freedom

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.

No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

The man who does as he likes is the greatest slave. The man who never does as he likes is God's free man.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.