Quotes About Freedom

We thought nothing of running right ahead ten or a dozen miles before turning back; for we knew nothing about taking time by the sun, and none of us had a watch in those days.

But no punishment, however sure and severe, was of any avail against the attraction of the fields and woods. It had other uses, developing memory, etc., but in keeping us at home it was of no use at all.

Another wonderful Sierra day wherein one appears to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not wherein. Life seems neither long nor quick, and we take no extra heed to keep time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is actual freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

Are we only hated because we're free -- Free and prosperous and good? Or does the light we see cast shadows we don't -- Where monsters...can plant the seeds of hate?

Let the flame of anger free you of all falsity.

May the expectation in other eyes Never decide how you are to be;

Beauty is a free spirit and will not be trapped within the grid of intentionality.

Love is also a force of light and nurture that liberates you to inhabit to the full your own difference. There should be no imitation of each other; no need to be defensive or protective in each other's presence. Love should encourage and free you fully into your full potential.

The beautiful can exist at the edge precisely because it has nothing to lose and everything to give away. FREDERICK TURNER OUR

May you come to recognize That though your body is imprisoned, No one can imprison your mind. May all the time you have on your hands Bring you into new friendship with your mind

Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our "appropriate smallness.

As free persons, citizens recognize one another as having the moral power to have a conception of the good. This means that they do not view themselves as inevitably tied to the pursuit of the particular conception of the good and its final ends which they espouse at any given time.

Para un hombre libre no hay ocupación más digna y encantadora que contemplar las hermosas obras de la naturaleza y honrar la sabiduría y bondad infinitas de Dios.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression.

I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.

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but you ask anybody who's been to jail, and they'll tell you—a little is way, way better than a lot. Way better.

There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.

Whether you're an extra or the hero, this story is about to end. When it's done, whatever you want to be will be up to you and only you. It will happen away from the eyes of any audience and from the hand of any writer. You will be your own man.

It's not spam if you agree to it," Tony said. "They just won't have much of a choice.

But everyone knows you need fireworks to make independence official.

Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to "Get Off My Property." News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.   I

I'm not even one year old," Jared said. "I can be a baby if I want.

Marquis de Lafayette