Quotes About Freedom

If we were meant to be nude, we would have been born that way.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

No, no, the mind I love must still have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of — and paths threaded with those little flowers planted by the mind. It must also have real hiding places, not artificial ones — not gazebos and mazes. And I have never yet met the cultivated mind that has not had its shrubbery.

Life is so much clearer under the stars than under a roof.

Die down, O dismal day! and let me live. And come, blue deeps! magnificently strewn With colored clouds — large, light, and fugitive — By upper winds through pompous motions blown.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable!

America is not just a country, but a way of life.

No one's going to take our democracy away from us, not now, not ever. America's come too far. America's fought too many battles. America's endured too much to ever let that happen.

We the people will not be silenced. We the people will not be bullied. We the people will not surrender.

It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

You have casual Fridays. Those of us who work at home have shaveless Mondays… deodorantless Tuesdays… sockless Wednesdays… and of course, topless Thursdays.

Being a person is getting too complicated. Time to be a unicorn.

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

Hiking is just walking where it's okay to pee.

Wind tries to show Tree how to run wild. Tree: "I cannot leave this place." Wind: "Then let's dance."

Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum.

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and a moral fact — the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. And we love it for this audacity!

My country 't is of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim's pride, From every mountain side Let freedom ring...

He who drinks a fifth on the fourth may not be able to go forth on the fifth.

Fourth of July — it was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me.

...may the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own Country!