Quotes about Freedom
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
— GK Chesterton
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight.
— Anonymous
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
— Anonymous
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
— Victor Hugo
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
— Epictetus
Love, and do what you like.
— St. Augustine
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
— Samuel Johnson
Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
— Pablo Picasso