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Quotes About Freedom

In America, immigration is the story of hope and achievement, of youth, of freedom, of creation. But all entrances on one stage are exits elsewhere.
~ A.A. Gill
A bar girl in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad who asked to see my passport and held it to her nose; closing her eyes she sighed, 'Ah, the smell of freedom.
~ A.A. Gill
How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue It makes him very proud To be a little cloud.
~ A.A. Milne
If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: "That's where I wanted to go today!
~ A.A. Milne
How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively. 'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied. 'You mean to die?' asked Pooh. 'Yes and now,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.
~ A.A. Milne
Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me.
~ A.A. Milne
Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!
~ A.A. Milne
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the color of his hair.
~ A.E. Housman
Guns are a necessary tool designed to help your people avoid a repeat of history.
~ A.E. Samaan
Madame la Guillotine is the younger sister, the ideological sibling of the 2nd Amendment; both were conceived of a need to purge overbearing governments.
~ A.E. Samaan
Nowhere in the Bill of Rights are the words unless inconvenient to be found.
~ A.E. Samaan
Regulated rights are not rights. They are niceties and platitudes intended to keep the populace thinking their individual autonomy is respected by their government.
~ A.E. Samaan
The Bill of Rights is the United States. The United States is the Bill of Rights. Compromise the Bill of Rights and you dissolve the very foundation upon which the Union stands.
~ A.E. Samaan
The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.
~ A.E. Samaan
The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.
~ A.E. Samaan
Slavery comes in many guises lady. A woman should recognize that.
~ A.J. Hartley
The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best
~ A.S. Neill
If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself
~ A.S. Neill
No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.
~ A.S. Neill
Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.
~ A.S. Neill
C'est cette distinction entre la liberté et l'anarchie que beaucoup de parents ne saisissent pas. Dans le foyer discipliné, les enfants n'ont aucun droit. Dans le foyer désordonné ils les ont tous. Le foyer équilibré est celui où les enfants et les adultes ont des droits égaux. C'est la même chose en ce qui concerne l'école. (p. 150)
~ A.S. Neill
an intellectual betrayed his mission if he was not the most constant defender of civilization and freedom of thought
~ Ève Curie
You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."
~ William W. Purkey
Ç?plakt?k ç?plakl???m?z s o n s u z a de?iyordu
~ İlhan Berk