Quotes About Freedom

I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done.

Dieu vous a envoyé à moi pour consoler à la fois l'homme qui ne pouvait être père et le prisonnier qui ne pouvait être libre.»

Dac? florile înseamn? libertate, relu? cu tristeÈ›e osânditul, atunci înseamn? c? libertatea o am, de vreme ce am florile.

I have to admit that my historical work is my favourite occupation. When I go back to the past, I forget the present. I walk free and independently through history, and forget that I am a prisoner.

Su horizonte se iba ensanchando más y más, pero no ese horizonte sombrío y lleno de terrores en el que se arrastraba antes de su sueño, sino un horizonte azul, transparente y vasto, con todo lo que el mar tiene de tintas mágicas, con todo lo que el sol tiene de luz, y todo lo que la brisa tiene de perfumes.

I say what I please, and at this moment it pleases me to tell you that you annoy me. Aramis! Porthos!

O puÈ™c? fusese mult? vreme visul tân?rului. În toate ??rile unde independenÈ›a ia locul libert??ii, prima nevoie pe care orice inim? tare, orice caracter puternic o încearc? e aceea a unei arme care asigur? totdeauna atacul È™i ap?rarea È™i care, f?cându-l pe acela ce o poart? cumplit, îl face, deseori, È™i temut.

Athos, secondo il solito, né lo dissuadeva, né lo incoraggiava. Athos era del parere che bisognava lasciare ad ognuno la sua libera scelta. Non dava mai consigli senza esserne richiesto e bisognava anche chiederglieli due volte. - In generale, - egli diceva, - i consigli si chiedono soltanto per non seguirli, o, se si sono seguiti, per aver qualcuno a cui poter rimproverare d'averli dati.

Le besoin de sécurité asphyxie l'âme.

Loin de chez eux, ils s'autorisaient à vivre d'autres facettes de leur personnalité, en jachère, s'affranchissaient des attentes de leurs proches qui les bornaient, du personnage prévisible qu'ils jouaient en société.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life. For my part, I should be inclined to think freedom less necessary in the great things than in the little ones, if it were possible to be secure of the one without the other.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

One's love for despotism is in exact proportion to one's contempt for one's country.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country

The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence.

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

But in America the sovereignty of the people is neither hidden nor sterile as with some other nations; mores recognize it, and the laws proclaim it; it spreads with freedom and attains unimpeded its ultimate consequences.

Although men cannot become absolutely equal unless they be entirely free, and consequently equality, pushed to its furthest extent, may be confounded with freedom, yet there is good reason for distinguishing the one from the other.

Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable once the idea of escape from them is suggested.

It was never assumed in the United States that the citizen of a free country has a right to do whatever he pleases; on the contrary, social obligations were there imposed upon him more various than anywhere else.

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.

No African has ever voluntarily emigrated to the shores of the New World; whence it must be inferred, that all the blacks who are now to be found in that hemisphere are either slaves or freedmen.