Quotes About Freedom

Your POWER always resides in the moment of CHOICE.

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

Both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were brought forth under the inspiration of God to establish and maintain the freedom of the people of this nation. I said it, and I believe it to be true. There is a miracle in its establishment that cannot be explained in any other way.

Great are the promises concerning this land of America. We are told unequivocally that it "is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ" (Ether 2:12). This is the crux of the entire matter—obedience to the commandments of God.

We are people of peace. We are followers of the Christ who was and is the Prince of Peace. But there are times when we must stand up for right and decency, for freedom and civilization, just as Moroni rallied his people in his day to the defense of their wives, their children, and the cause of liberty.

Communism went against life, against man's fundamental needs, against the need for freedom, the need to be enterprising, to associate freely against the will of the nation," Václav Havel noted. "Something that goes against life may last a long time, but sooner or later it will collapse.

The students who surrendered the square on the morning of June 4 could not begin to imagine, in those sad days of 1989, that their ideas would eventually prevail. They set into motion a chain of events that will one day lead to a free and prosperous China, one better than they could, at that time, imagine—perhaps one better than we can imagine today.

When we lock things away," he said with conviction, "we're really imprisoning ourselves.

Got a whiskey cured guitar and no place is too far

To be fully free to create, we must first find the courage and willingness to let go: Let go of the strategies that have worked for us in the past... Let go of our biases, the foundation of our illusions... Let go of our grievances, the root source of our victimhood... Let go of our so-often-denied fear of being found unlovable.

Now when I say let go, I do not mean reject. Because when you let go of something, it will still be there for you when you need it. But because you have stopped clinging you will have freed yourself up to tap into other possibilities - possibilities that can help you deal with this world of accelerating change.

The escape from habitual culture must always be temporary if you expect to be permitted back into that culture.

I found out very early that the more you want to hold people the more they want to be free.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

There was a minority among the human race, as there always had been, that found comfort in trading a personal freedom of mind and body for the relief of clinging to a stronger certainty than they were able to produce within themselves.

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god; it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg"—

173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one," wrote Jefferson in 1785 in his Notes on the State of Virginia. "An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."31

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul; Love is the only angel who can bid the gates unroll...

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free; Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Let your imagination take you wherever you want to be. This piece of canvas truly is your world.

When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.