Quotes About Freedom

if we are going to continue to be proud that we are Americans, there must be no weakening of the code by which we have lived; by the right to meet your accuser face to face, if you have one; by your right to go to the church or the synagogue or even the mosque of your own choosing; by your right to speak your mind and be protected in it. Ladies and gentlemen, the things that make us proud to be Americans are the soul and the spirit.

Trout Fishing in America.

It condemned The Wave as a dangerous and mindless movement that suppressed freedom of speech and thought and ran against everything the country was founded on.

Another way of allowing more freedom into the mind is not holding fixed ideas about people and things.

Let's go again to Niag'ra,This time we'll look at the Fall.Let's leave our hut, Dear,Get out of our rut, Dear,Let's get away from it all.

The man who judges two equally brutal oppressors to be different, merely because they wear different faces, does not deserve freedom from oppression".–Pablo Sanchez, The Winter of Nations, 1851

Better to lose your husband than waste your life

A nation becomes great not by a mere imposition of order and power, but by letting go, knowing that there is much to gain by open discussion.

I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

Permission to drink freely from the well of life - and the upstairs loo

I've always believed that the most extraordinary results occur only when one feels unbound by any notion of constraint or limitation.

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.

When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.

May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

I love the ocean. Anywhere near the ocean will do. Preferably the Atlantic Ocean.

If you have the ocean and you have your board, nothing matters.

I want to stay in the ocean. I'm not going to be able to do that from some holding cell in Japan.

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

I like going in the ocean and leaving my hair for two days with the saltwater beachy look. I think that is part of the reason I would love to cut my hair short. I just wouldn't ever have to think about it.

It didn't matter if we didn't have new bikes and skateboards and a nice car, and a lot of food in the fridge. We were in the ocean just enjoying life to the fullest.

I've always had a deep connection with the ocean, and could never see myself landlocked.

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

It is hard for anyone born after 1945 to imagine a world where the oceans - the global commons - are not open for trade and commerce or where freedom of navigation is imperiled.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.