Quotes About Freedom

I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent

I'll let my castle go

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all...

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound.

smile upon him far, far from foemen's power. And Mohammed, thinking to look upon a dying slave, shall

to the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now.

I feel strong now, I enjoy the air, the motion, and the thought that each step takes me farther from that man gives me new power and spirit. It is dark and strange, but I have no fear.

Surely there is some redress for me, some safety in this land of law and liberty. I claim entire freedom from this man's persecution; I will hide no longer, here I shall remain and let him molest me at his peril.

Getting completely lost, coming unstrung and unbound, arriving at unknown and unexpected places, is, for me, a critical part of writing.

How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.

I need a word, a sentence. The door is open. Go.

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The whiskey had its own mind. Or spirit, he said. A cunning spirit. Sometimes it fooled him. Sometimes it set him free.

My suggestion is to err in getting what seems at present too much room rather than not enough.

I think that we Americans, at least in the Southern col[onie]s, cannot contend with a good grace for liberty until we shall have enfranchised our slaves

Standard Oil had taught the American public an important but paradoxical lesson: Free markets, if left completely to their own devices, can wind up terribly unfree. Competitive capitalism did not exist in a state of nature but had to be defined or restrained by law.

Fundada em 1746 para contrabalançar a influência da Igreja da Inglaterra, Princeton era um foco de posições presbiterianas e Whigs, pregava a liberdade religiosa e talvez parecesse uma escolha lógica para Hamilton.

Yet she decided never to marry and to remain self-sufficient.

Once Hamilton was initiated into the cause of American liberty, his life acquired an even more headlong pace that never slackened.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

Frank wanted to have it both ways: to be heavily indebted to his brothers yet operate free of their control.