Quotes About Freedom

The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.

The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected.

THE CAUSE of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar of money appropriated to their support no matter how raised, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school...Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church & the private school support[ed] entirely by private contribution. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Never let the past close your wings to fly today to your future

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

But how long must she sing in the darkness until she is at last allowed out into the light of day?

Die Freiheit von der Hoffnung ist die vollkommene Freiheit. The freedom of the hope is complete freedom.

Umuttan kurtulu? tam bir özgürlük demektir

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their deliverance.

Sometimes the best way to figure out who you are is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else.

Happiness or unhappiness is often a matter of choice.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think

Sell not your liberty to gratify your luxury

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.

Dance as if no one were watching, Sing as if no one were listening, And live every day as if it were your last

An act against my will is not my act.