Quotes About Freedom

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

Who knows the tryst a man keeps with the wind and sky.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.