Quotes about Freedom

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist." All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

The lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

the stars seemed near enough to touch and never before have i seen so many. i always believed the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, but i was sure of it that night.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.