Quotes About Freedom

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. When work has disciplined a man, he may safely be left to himself...

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport and a library card.

Life: What you choose to make it.

Working on the assumption (and it is only an assumption) that we have one life each it is important to every one of us that we do the best we can with it. If society says to us: 'We are prepared to look after you from the cradle to the grave provided you live in a boring place and work at a boring job' then we should consider very seriously whether this is a bargain we want to accept.

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

ADULTERY. Democracy applied to love.

Fill paper as you please with triangles and squares...

May. — The very word makes the heart leap. Birds, Buds, Blossoms, Beauty! Break away from every bondage of circumstance or low spirits and go out into the sunshine. Answer back the bird-note in your heart, kiss your finger tips to every new blossom, and be a part of the spring.

Our democracy needs a robust press to hold our leaders accountable and cover the important issues facing our communities. The First Amendment belongs to all of us.

...the devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot's dread of a newspaper that laughs.

Art and composition tolerate no conventional fetters: mind and soul soar above them.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows...

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — little rags and shreds of your very life.

Two most important things in a writer's wallet: library card and poetic license.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

A poet is inmate, and warden, to his own mind.

There is no vagrant notion in your nature that poetry does not encourage.

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

poets swing too high until the chain kinks and snaps mid-air the fall is poetry

The liberal spirit is the breath of liberal democracy. And the liberal spirit is something instantly recognizable but very difficult to define. It has about it a refreshing common sense... It is even-tempered, and of even tempo... Reform, and constant reform, is a necessity of democracy. But reform in a hurry... is jerry-built, and it blows down in the first storm.

A Political Warning & Prediction. — Let us guard against every enemy threatening the perpetuity of free republican institutions. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.

In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.