Quotes About Freedom

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

Man's last freedom is his freedom to choose how he will react in any given situation

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners.

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.