We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.

Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." The most terrible and tremendous saying in the world, Jane… because we are all afraid of truth and afraid of freedom… that's why we murdered Jesus.

Occasionally she would come to church, stalking unconcernedly up the aisle to a prominent seat. She never put on hat or shoes on such occasions, but when she wanted to be especially grand she powdered face, arms and legs with flour!

big house to the slave quarters was nothing short of miraculous as far as

The desire of life and health is implanted in man's nature;- the love of liberty and enlargement is a sister-passion to it

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.