Quotes About Freedom

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.

Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down

We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.]

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

I felt I could become a performer who stood out, who challenged the way things were done and make it more creative and also encourage men and women to not be afraid of their sexuality.

The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.