Quotes About Freedom

stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along.

Amazing love! How can it be, That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me? Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and nature's night; Thine eye diffused a quickening ray – I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces. – Psalm 107:14

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. – Romans 8:1

America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

Had there been no Bible, there would be no America as we know it.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. – Galatians 3:13

being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. – Romans 3:24

Ayn Rand offered perhaps the most rational solution for dealing with slanderers when she said, "Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

The human race puzzles me, with striving for freedom, and then basically just giving it away.

We're giving up free range, getting organized, feathering our emotions. Efficiency an effectiveness and all those other pieces of intellectual artifice. And with the loss of free range, the cowboy disappears, along with the mountain lion and gray wolf. There's not much room left for travelers.

wondering about a man to whom the difference between a pasture and a meadow seemed important, [...] who seemed like the wind. And moved like it. Came from it, perhaps.

Estamos a desistir da liberdade (...) e com a perda da liberdade, o cowboy desaparece, juntamente com o leão da montanha e o lobo cinzento.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea

Our goal should not be to reshape masculinity but to eliminate it. The goal is liberation from the masculinity trap.

every decent man confronted by a totalitarian regime ought to have the pluck to commit high treason.

Peter came to understand that the roots of Western technological achievement lay in the freeing of men's minds. He grasped that it had been the Renaissance and the Reformation, neither of which had ever come to Russia, which had broken the bonds of the medieval church and created an environment where independent philosophical and scientific inquiry as well as wide-ranging commercial enterprise could flourish.

It turns out that human beings yearn not only for freedom, autonomy, individuality, and recognition. Especially in times of difficulty, they also yearn for security, order, and a sense of belonging to something larger than themselves, something that submerges autonomy and individuality—which autocracies often provide better than democracies.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Whose mouse are you?" Nobody's mouse. "Where is your mother?" Inside a cat. "Where is your father?" Caught in a trap.

In the summer of 1949, Borman was one of a select few cadets to tour postwar Germany. For him, the biggest impression came at the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau...The trip sickened and saddened him, and it reinforced his certainty that America was a force for good in the world, a country that stepped up to help suffering people and defend freedom.