Quotes About Freedom

Our principal claim here is that patients and doctors should be free to make their own agreements about that right. If patients want to waive the right to sue, they should be allowed to do exactly that. This increase in freedom is likely to help doctors and patients alike, and to make a valuable, even if modest, contribution to the health care problem.

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.

There is no prettier sight in the world than a full-rigged, clipper-built brig, sailing sharp on the wind.

A sailor's liberty is but for a day; yet while it lasts it is perfect.

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, had all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.

That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

The person who lets the world control him, no longer possesses his inner self.

Those whose happiness is within, whose peace is within, whose light is within—that person becomes free.

Viktor Frankl concluded that in the last resort "everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."4

Gonna get me one of them Jeep Cherokees with the four-wheel drive, and go all over the whole country in it.

An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.

If you only knew the beauty which awaits you, Daniel. If you only knew how lovely are the realms which lie beyond this house. Would you keep yourself locked in a barren cell when all the beauties of the universe await you on the outside?

I looked at all the people, feeling sorry for them. They were still subordinate to clock and calendar. Absolved of that, I stood becalmed.

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.

Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.

Well, why not? Why not go out? It was a sure way to be free of them.