Quotes about Freedom

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

A forced marriage is no marriage.

Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences be what they may. Suppose that in her pride she becomes giddy, suppose that she does break with me-all right! -she has her freedom, but she will still belong to me. That the engagement should bind her is silly-I want to possess her only in her freedom

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

The only object of liberty is life.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.