Quotes About Freedom

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.

So we defend ourselves and our henroosts, and maintain slavery.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.

The Indian… stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison . . . the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

If an eagle be imprisoned on the back of a coin, and the coin tossed into the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Most surely all guys aren't same, and any democratic concept which strives to make men equal is handiest an attempt to block development

There is no reason why a man who is willing to work should not be able to work and to receive the full value of his work. There is equally no reason why a man who can but will not work should not receive the full value of his services to the community. He should most certainly be permitted to take away from the community an equivalent of what he contributes to it. If he contributes nothing he should take away nothing. He should have the freedom of starvation. We

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

we have not abolished slavery; we have only abolished one rude form of it, chattel slavery. There is a deeper and a more insidious form, a more cursed form yet before us to abolish, in this industrial slavery that makes a man a virtual slave, while taunting him and mocking him with the name of freedom

Friday was not a fish, he could not swim off through the sea; he was not a bird, and could not fly off through the air; if he lived at all, he had to live on that island. And if that island was Crusoe's, Crusoe was his master through life to death.

Necessary policemen, firemen, street cleaners, health officers, judges, legislators and executives perform productive services as important as those of anyone in private industry. They make it possible for private industry to function in an atmosphere of law, order, freedom and peace. But their justification consists in the utility of their services. It does not consist in the "purchasing power" they possess by virtue of being on the public payroll.