Quotes About Freedom

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason.

Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be.

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

Freedom and independence form my character.

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

I have given you independence, now go and preserve it.

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules.