Quotes about Freedom
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
— Jack Kerouac
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
— Thomas Paine
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.
— Abraham Lincoln
Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.
— Calvin Coolidge
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
— St. Augustine
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
— Francis de Sales
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
— Walt Whitman
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
— William Osler
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.
— Joseph Campbell