Quotes About Freedom

If you're wired a certain way, you'll always be in morion, clicking to your own rhythm, all of it in four-four time, avoiding convention and predictability and control as you would a sickness, the whole world waiting for you like an enormous dance pavilion lit by colored lights and surrounded with palm trees. I'm not talking about the dirty boogie. The music of the spheres is right outside your bedroom window.

You just got sprung. Nig Rosewater out there? Clete asked. Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II.

I won't try to argue with your experience and what you've shaped out of it. But the world isn't a jail. We just make our own sometimes. Does that make any sense to you?

caused him to drop his membership in the ACLU and join the National Rifle Association.

We don't care what people say, rock and roll is here to stay.

go with the wind, all of us twirling among young people who wore flowers in their hair, a church bell clanging without stop in a Spanish mission. Roll on forever, Woody.

How many lives would have been spared had we not lent ourselves to the defense of a repellent cause like slavery?

This dissent isn't going to suppress itself.

In Connecticut we had freedom of religion so you could belong to any church you wanted, unless you were a Papist.

Sometimes Father brought home Rivington's Gazette from Verplancks. It was a Tory paper and he wasn't supposed to have it; it was illegal, so he kept it hidden. It made me wonder how the war was going to make us freer if you couldn't read any paper you wanted any more.

Laugh all you want. I can laugh all I want. ::pause for effect:: Did someone here make me say that? -Kyp and Bombaasa

I refuse to live my life under terms dictated by the Empire.

Through power we gain victory, and through victory our chains are broken. But power is only a means to an end.

Just you and me and the road. Just a couple of tramps, just a couple of gypsies, that's it, but we'll be together.

James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson

sees the revolutionary dimension of the war not simply as a triumph of freedom over slavery, or industrialism over agriculture, or the bourgeoisie over the plantation gentry—but as a combination of all these things. Plantation agriculture in the South was not a form of feudalism, Moore insists; rather, it was a special form of capitalism that spawned a value system and an ideology that glorified hereditary privilege, racial caste, and slavery while it rejected bourgeois

conception of democracy that includes the goals of human equality, even the limited form of equality of opportunity, and human freedom. … Labor-repressive agricultural systems, and plantation slavery in particular, are political obstacles to a particular kind of capitalism, at a specific historical stage: competitive democratic capitalism we must call it for lack of a more precise term.

essence of liberty as independence, which required the ownership of productive property.

Some employers banned drinking on the job and tried even to forbid their workers to drink off the job. For men who considered their thrice-daily tipple a right, this was another mark of slavery.

He warned that those "who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.

The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.