Quotes About Freedom

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

Men must go out of their minds.

There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don't want to be a man.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.