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Quotes About Freedom

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
~ George MacDonald
A true man does what he will, not what he must.
~ George R. R. Martin
We will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men; free people will set the course of history.
~ George W. Bush
There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man.
~ George W. Bush
I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.
~ George W. Bush
You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!
~ Gideon Defoe
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.
~ Glenway Wescott
His mouth was hot and hungry, and he kissed the way no man should kiss and still be allowed to run free.
~ Linda Howard
It is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child to wear khaki.
~ Lisa Birnbach
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
~ Louisa May Alcott
It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.
~ Lyman Abbott
Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant, and a member of my party, in that order always and only.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.
~ Lysander Spooner
Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!
~ Mae West
Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
~ Mahatma Gandhi