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Quotes About Freedom

Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.
~ Algernon Sidney
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
~ Andre Gide
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
~ Anthony de Mello
Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
~ Aristotle
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men.
~ Ayn Rand
Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.
~ Ayn Rand
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
~ Ayn Rand
I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
~ Benjamin F. Wade
Free men stick their necks out.
~ Bernard Crick
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
~ Bertrand Russell
There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.
~ Brad Garrett
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.
~ Carl Sandburg
Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.
~ Catherine Fisher
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
~ Charles Lamb
Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.
~ Cher
I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.
~ Cherie Priest
Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?
~ Cynthia Ozick
Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.
~ Dale Carnegie
The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.
~ David Jeremiah
Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.
~ Donatella Versace
I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!
~ Donny Osmond
The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.
~ Edward Dunlop