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Quotes About Freedom

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
~ George Eliot
Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.
~ George Hackenschmidt
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
~ Gerrit Smith
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.
~ H. L. Mencken
Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.
~ Ludwig von Mises
Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
~ Margaret Fuller
A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
~ Milan Kundera
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
~ Milos Forman
Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street
~ Nat Young
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.
~ Nelson Mandela
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
~ Phil Ochs
Let each man have the wit to go his own way.
~ Propertius
A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.
~ Raymond Carver
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the slave of the monsters of his own creation, the ghosts and phantoms of the air.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.
~ Gene Tierney
The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
~ Bob Riley
Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.
~ Ronald Reagan
The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life.
~ Steve Buyer
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
~ Abraham Lincoln
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
~ Aeschylus