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Quotes About Freedom

Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.
~ Yisroel Salanter
All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
~ Ernesto Cardenal
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
~ Georges Bataille
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
~ Susan B. Anthony
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
~ Albert Einstein
No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.
~ Alexander Hamilton
I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.
~ Algernon Sidney
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
~ Anton Chekhov
Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.
~ Ayn Rand
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
~ Baruch Spinoza
All men would be tyrants if they could.
~ Daniel Defoe
For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.
~ John Eldredge
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
~ Jose Marti
Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.
~ Jose Saramago
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever
~ Joseph Priestley
When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.
~ Leon Jaworski
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be
~ Marcus Mumford
It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.
~ Mark Twain
We need to educate people about the reality of Islam, the logics of Islam. I am sure every free man in this world would fight the ideology of Islam.
~ Mosab Hassan Yousef
the federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots.
~ Neal Stephenson
We could end up in prison married to the guy with the most cigarettes.
~ Neal Stephenson