Quotes About Freedom

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

I have the motto that says, 'Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.' It's not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.

Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.

Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.

The boundaries of your life are merely a creation of the self.

I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, "Oh my God they have this, I want that."

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

With the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, and the rudder beneath my feet, I can savor that essence from which life is made.

There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.