Quotes About Freedom

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

No man is competent to manage another.

But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

And there are men behind bars who pray for the light and there are men in the suburbs who pray for the night.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

I don't need a man in my life.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against abuse of freedom.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be forced to have intimate relations with a man named Butch. Let. Me. Out.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.