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Quotes About Freedom

I think I like wildflowers best, " I explain. "They just grow wherever they want. No one has to plant them. And then their seeds blow in the wind and they find a new place to grow." (Richelle)
~ Rebecca Donovan, What If
Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.
~ J.M. McDermott, Straggletaggle
Always take the scenic route.
~ Janice Anderson
All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.
~ Paul Gauguin, Noa Noa
holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.
~ Sanober Khan
That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.But you also get kind of used to it.
~ Edith Pattou, East
We are not our thought we are just prisoner of our Identification of thought
~ Sushil Singh
But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Is It Frightening To Be Free?""You said it.""You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?""Seems to be a major human activity, yes.
~ Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.
~ David Clement-Davies, Fell
I don't like straight lines: men make them.
~ Richard Adams
Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
~ Abdolkarim Soroush
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!
~ Kelly Ripa
I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American's guarantee of freedom.
~ Harry S. Truman
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.
~ John Adams
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
~ Ronald Reagan
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution
~ Frederick Douglass
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
~ Edward Abbey