Quotes About Freedom

Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space.

I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

I was born free as Caesar; so were you

On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily.

Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful; In every one of these no man is free...

If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking: in the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.

Denmark's a prison.

our cage We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird, And sing our bondage freely.

Then to the elements be free...

Why should their liberty than ours be more?

At its most basic level, behind the grand poetry and superb characterizations, Shakespeare shows Macbeth succumbing to the temptation of pride, the same sin as Adam. Both wanted to live without God, to lead their own lives, follow their own paths, and ignore any limits on their freedom imposed by God's strictures.

Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius.

The raging rocks And shivering shocks Shall break the locks        Of prison gates: And Phibbus' car Shall shine from far, And make and mar        The foolish Fates.

Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.

Now my soul's palace is become a prison; Ah, would she break from hence, that this my body Might in the ground be closed up in rest! For never henceforth shall I joy again, Never, O never, shall I see more joy!

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Poor bird! Thou 'dst never fear the net nor lime, The pitfall nor the gin.

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.