Quotes About Freedom

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

All men are created equal.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

Break into Alton Towers! I would… break into McDonalds. And I would kiss everyone. On the lips… before I left the world. I mean, man and female.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.