Quotes about Freedom

What freedom am I being offered when my very South African citizenship is not respected?

The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.

I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.

A man's free to do what he wants with his life, until he falls foul of the banks.

And he who has once seen the world's borders will suffer his imprisonment most painfully of all.

We believe we are free, and that God will forgive us. Personally I think otherwise. Finally, transformed into tiny quivering photons, each of our deeds will set off into Outer Space, where the planets will keep watching it like a film until the end of the world.

I often crossed it inadvertently when out that way on my daily rounds. But I also liked to cross it on purpose, deliberately stepping to and fro. A dozen times, or several dozen times. I'd amuse myself like that for half an hour—playing the game of crossing the border. It gave me pleasure, because I could remember the time when it wasn't possible. I love crossing borders.

The clouds were so low that one could hook onto them and let oneself be carried away to a distant land, to the south, to warmer climes.

That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!Long has it waved on high,And many an eye has danced to seeThat banner in the sky;Beneath it rung the battle shout,And burst the cannon's roar—The meteor of the ocean airShall sweep the clouds no more.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

In short, contrary to the founders—and in ways they do not realize themselves—Americans today are heedlessly pursuing a vision of freedom that is short-lived and suicidal. Once again, freedom without virtue, leadership without character, business without trust, law without customs, education without meaning and medicine, science and technology without human considerations can end only in disaster.