Quotes About Freedom

Every one of the many wars the United States has engaged in since the end of World War II has been presented to the American people, explicitly or implicitly, as a war of necessity, not a war of choice; a war urgently needed to protect American citizens, American allies, vital American 'interests,' freedom and/or democracy, or kill dangerous anti-American terrorists and various other bad guys.

Adventure must start with running away from home.

Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander's adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no longer free.

Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers was asleep, he (Casanova) progressed until he arrived at the thought " that it was ridiculous to be oppressed

Of all times in time of war the press should be free.

The euphoria of quitting a bad job was rivaled only by good sex.

escape our own mind.

achieve escape velocity in order to break free the dense gravity field of matter and form.

We must conquer our personal addictions and attachments, for these are the anchors that hold us to the density of form and matter.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

I had wild Jack for a lover.

But the most interesting of all slave maladies was what Cartwright chose to call "drapetomania," the disease that made blacks want to run away from slavery.

A poor man might count for very little, but he was still free and white, which at least made him better than a free black or a slave, and in a society deeply dominated by class and caste, that was something worth fighting for.

If they give you lined paper, write the other way.

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

but for the Girl Writing A Letter these things don't matter, she's got a beer in her free hand, she's on the road, she's real and she's in love.

He that hath liberty ought to kepe it wel, for nothyng is better than liberty.

Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.

let me beseech you to resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle,

By fairy hands their knell is rung,By forms unseen their dirge is sung;There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,To bless the turf that wraps their clay,And Freedom shall awhile repair,To dwell a weeping hermit there!

Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungsReceive our air, that moment they are free!They touch our country, and their shackles fall.

Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness,Some boundless contiguity of shade,Where rumor of oppression and deceit,Of unsuccessful or successful war,Might never reach me more.