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Quotes About Freedom

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
~ Plutarch
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
~ Oscar Wilde
I feel outside of the system where you're male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don't represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.
~ Rae Spoon
These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.
~ Ralph Adams Cram
When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.
~ Reggie Evans
It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny.
~ Richard Ebeling
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
~ Richard Hooker
Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.
~ Richard Yates
A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
~ Rick Yancey
A man in armour is his armour's slave.
~ Robert Browning
A man in armor is his armor's slave.
~ Robert Browning
The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.
~ Robert E. Howard
If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Nothing is greater than to break the chains from the bodies of men, nothing nobler than to destroy the phantom of the soul.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.
~ Robert Hurt
It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---
~ Robert Jordan
I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.
~ Robert Kennedy