Quotes About Freedom

All the time you fighting, you think only of how to survive. All the time you survive, you wonder why you don't die. But now my life can be something different. Now, in America, I don't have to fight. I don't have to survive. I can chose a new thing: to live.

Most of all, I am afraid of life outside this place

They're afraid of being afraid. Losing control of a world they never had controlled in the first place.

The English had an army, and souls of vinegar, and they had killed and killed, and we were still not free.

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

If you're waiting for a special occasion to make your next trip happen, then consider this: The day you get off the couch and head for the airport, that's the special occasion.

There really is no downside to travel, save a little jet lag and a dented bank account. A small price to pay for a million-dollar experience.

A whole people's tumble into raw, untested century began with one man, penning his serpentine sojourn up from slavery-- I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but ... I must have been born somewhere and at some time. He began as another baby shoved directly into the wrong air.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. A

Life is better without the walls, everyone agrees. Still, sometimes I'm afraid of the outside world, and every so often in my private thoughts I wish the walls were still there to protect me. It feels like growing up, as if the safety of the childhood has been stripped away, and I've woken up on the edge of something dangerous. The walls are gone and I can do as I please. It's a freedom I'm not so sure I'm ready for.

Oh, Oiseau, you want Independence, but that idea weighs you down like handcuffs. First, be free before the idea. Then: make a list of the things in your head and in your stomach that chain you up. That's where it starts, that struggle of yours...

To Mame, conventional thinking and Early American décor are a prison; she advocates total sexual freedom, world travel, and "the feverish excitement of the creative career!" Mame believes that life must be art,

Not surprisingly, nondemocratic regimes by their nature are built around the restriction of individual freedom.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it! Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! (American Revolutionary War)

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

The great object is that every man be armed.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

Give me liberty or give me death." [From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry .]

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense?

The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.