Quotes About Freedom

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

The Constitution gives you the right to a lawyer, but it doesn't allow you the right to a good reputation.

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.

(P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream

Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.

Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.

There is no greater pleasure in the world than riding a good horse.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.