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Quotes About Freedom

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?
~ James Russell Lowell
The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Man's existence precedes his essence
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his way." "Right. I'm sure he was on his way but a truck hit him.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Wild men are so enormously attractive.
~ Jo Brand
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
~ Johannes Tauler
Let every man sing his own song in life.
~ John Andreas Widtsoe
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
~ John Donne
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!
~ John Eldredge
Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
~ John F. Kennedy
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
~ John F. Kennedy
My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.
~ John Fogerty
So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.
~ John Jay Chapman
I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.
~ John Lennon
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
~ John Milton
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
~ John Milton
Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release
~ John Moulder Wilson
We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!
~ Spike Milligan
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
~ Eleanor Roosevelt