Quotes about Freedom
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.
— John Updike
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
— Samuel Johnson
The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World
— Henry David Thoreau
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
— Thomas Jefferson
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me
— Alice Walker
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned.
— Cormac McCarthy
Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.
— Timothy Keller
[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.
— James Madison
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
— Samuel Rutherford
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
— Henry David Thoreau