Quotes About Freedom

If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

All men are good when free from passion, interest, or error.

Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

I do not need a man. I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life.

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.

To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.

He was not bound. No one led him by the arm. He got out of the carriage as if he were a free man.

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine it.

Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.