Quotes About Freedom

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

On my way home I didn't walk on the ground. I was way up in the clouds just skipping along.

Among the whites some think they can see and choose for others.

the U.S. government this very summer was sending an army against the Mormons at the big salty lake to make the Mormons live like the other wasicu, especially not to take more than one wife. Incomprehensible. "They

made a pilgrimage to Fort Robinson, where he chose death over the loss of his freedom.

and barred windows. He

A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain...

By snowshoe, canoe, or dog team, they moved through those woods, rivers, and lakes. It was not a life circumscribed by a clock, stamp, fence, or road.

Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

The United States is a land of free speech. No where is speech freer—not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

a twenty-knot streak looked like; if there weren't

The world is not a source of enjoyment; it is a place of tyranny, and every aspect of the world is a form of tyranny (Gal. 4:8).

Zac. 12:1 ...Así declara Jehová, que extiende los cielos, pone los cimientos de la tierra y forma el espíritu del hombre dentro de él. 2 Co. 3:17 Y el Señor es el Espíritu; y donde está el Espíritu del Señor, allí hay libertad. 2 Ti. 4:22 El Señor esté con tu espíritu. La gracia sea con vosotros.

Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.