Quotes About Freedom

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death;—the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

For gracious sake, don't talk about Liberty; we have quite enough of that.

eighteen years a secret and unaccused prisoner in the Bastille;

No puede ayudarme a facilitar la fuga de mi cuerpo, pero permitirá que mi espíritu pueda marcharse. Les dije estas mismas palabras, me acuerdo. perfectamente.

Fermati, tu che leggi, e medita per un momento sulla lunga catena di bronzo o d'oro, di spine o di fiori, che mai ti avrebbe soggiogato se in un solo memorabile giorno non si fosse formato e chiuso il primo anello.

The bars were wide enough apart to admit of his thrusting his arm through to the elbow; and so he held on negligently, for his greater ease.

Confieso que me habría gustado gozar de las alegres libertades de un niño, y ser lo bastante mayor para apreciar su dolor.

The large rooms are too cramped and close. She cannot endure their restraint, and will walk alone in a neighbouring garden.

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far, we are pursued by nothing else.

But Mr. and Mrs. Micawber were so used to their old difficulties, I think, that they felt quite shipwrecked when they came to consider that they were released from them.

He was a mere child in the world, but he didn't cry for the moon. He said to the world, 'Go your several ways in peace! Wear red coats, blue coats, lawn-sleeves, put pens behind your ears, wear aprons; go after glory, holiness, commerce, trade, any object you prefer; only - let Harold Skimpole live!

Have I ever sought release?" "In words. No. Never.

Time is no object here. We never know what o'clock it is, and we never care.

Thus, "the full meaning of freedom [is] the gift of self in service to God and one's brethren."34

But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself--you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.

Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices.

Do not be afraid of the empty place. It is the source we must return to if we are to be free of the stories and habits that entrap us.

Everyone is a puppet, but there are no puppet-masters.

To be truly rich is to have sovereignty over our own time.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

The main thing I believe in is freedom.

Are there not railroads and Pullmans enough, that you must walk? That is what a great many of my friends said when they learned of my determination to travel from Ohio to California on foot; and very likely it is the question that will first come to your mind in reading of the longest walk for pure pleasure that is on record.

As we place our dependence upon God, an incredible freedom and peace will begin to rest in our hearts. And reaching that point in our lives makes every failure worth it.