Quotes About Freedom

How wild it is, to let it be.

Here it could be the fourth of July or the tenth of December. These mountains didn't count the days. The

But a woman who walks alone in the wilderness for eleven hundred miles? I'd never been anything like that before. I had nothing to lose by giving it a whirl.

It had only to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles for no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets.

The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.

How strange and glorious it was to be anchored to nothing, to be free, in some particular way, for the first time in my life.

You don't need a reason to leave.

You are not a terrible person for wanting to break up with someone you love. You don't need a reason to leave. Wanting to leave is enough.

we must help ourselves. That after destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives. We can choose to fling our kids into the grass or we can take deep breaths and walk up and down the hall.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

26 January is a happy day for all Indians. Whether or not you feel patriotic, it is a guaranteed holiday in the first month of the year.

I guess that is why most people drink anyway. To shut up their inner critic. So they can do whatever the hell they want.

What's the point of getting people free only to put restrictions on them?

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more, forever.

I will fight no more forever

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine.

Most sports need only one ball — skydiving takes both!

Give your stress wings and let it fly away.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.

"Count that day won," he sings, "when, turning on its axis, this earth imposes no additional taxes."