Quotes About Freedom

It is a marvelous thing to find that you can imagine yourself into the state of your fulfilled desire and escape from the jails which ignorance built.

New Hampshire State Motto

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

It is completely up to you.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

Do you men still know how to fight?" he (GW) roared. A primal cry erupted around him. "Then fall in and show those redcoats over there" — he pointed back to the advancing British — "how Americans can stand and fight for their freedom!

Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but are unable to do so?

the freedom of the individual consciousness to doubt, question, dissent, argue, or search for a private path to truth...

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

the gypsies never journeyed toward an end, for motion was an end in itself

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world-just not to care?

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world - just not to care? I feel so grateful for it.

In poetry everything is permitted.

United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

We're always freer than we know.

We're all afraid to acknowledge the freedom we really have.

The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Seeing people only as members of groups is, he says, "inherently reductionist and dehumanizing, a collectivist and ideological abstraction of all that is original and creative in the human being, of all that has not been imposed by inheritance, geography, or social pressure." Real, personal identity, he argues, "springs from the capacity of human beings to resist these influences and counter them with free acts of their own invention." 5

As far as he was concerned, that meant he was free to address the others on equal terms,

rather than constitutional right.

He could even have come by air, as individual balloonists already had.

The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. —D. H. Lawrence,