Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit

If she had looked more deeply into herself, she would have realized that what had thrilled her about the bird was his freedom, the energy of his wings in motion, not his physical body.

We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.

While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing.

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."