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Quotes About Freedom

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.
~ Abraham Lincoln
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
~ Alan Watts
It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
~ Alice Childress
Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.
~ Amos Oz
A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.
~ Andy Garcia
. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
~ Aristotle
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
~ Ayn Rand
It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.
~ Bernard Malamud
I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.
~ Christopher Fry
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.
~ Chuck Baldwin
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
~ David O. McKay
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I never met a man I could marry.
~ Greta Garbo
I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.
~ Harry Belafonte
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
~ Heinrich Heine
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
~ Homer
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
~ Horace
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
~ Jack Kerouac
We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.
~ John Adams
Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.
~ Lawrence Reed
Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.
~ Louis de Bernieres