Quotes About Freedom

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.