Quotes about Freedom

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two...

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children.

Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

A delightful sense of being very young and free in a civilization that was very old and free.

It's just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like.

The First Amendment is not without limits.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.