Quotes about Freedom

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.

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

God wants us to worry about our sins before we sin; the devil wants us to worry after we sin. God wants us to feel free after we repent (for we really are free then); the devil is a deceiver). The devil tempts us to cavalier pride before we sin and worrisome despair afterward, since pride and despair both separate us from God, and anything that separates us from God is the devil's friend and our enemy, while anything that brings us close to God is the devil's enemy and our friend.

That freedom is lost in Hell.

What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.

the mere necessity brings with it a dispensation, since necessity knows no law. . . .

I will not serve"—