Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor RooseveltThe eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
Virginia WoolfConsciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.
Robert GreeneAmerica is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThere is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.
Joyce MeyerThe trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
Alice WalkerFreedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Thomas SowellHow wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
Maya AngelouFighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
Maya AngelouSlavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham LincolnMan is not free unless government is limited.
Ronald ReaganDeath is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus AureliusThe roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.
Charles SpurgeonThe people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas SowellThe English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWe object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.
Charles SpurgeonMost dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William ShakespeareFor if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert CamusIf you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.
Hunter S. ThompsonNobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.
Kanye WestI sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
George W. BushWhen the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
Ho Chi MinhWhen my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.
Mr. TReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
James MadisonWe must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
H. L. MenckenLet every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. KennedyMen freely believe that which they desire.
Julius CaesarAll respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
Ruth Bader GinsburgSometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.
Pope FrancisThe price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Desmond TutuThe truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.
Angelina JolieI believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.
Dan QuayleThe only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand RussellOur greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas JeffersonLet not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Mahatma GandhiFashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
Golda MeirI know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
Muhammad AliLet me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Golda MeirArt is to be free. Design is to fix.
Kanye WestI mean we all need a second chance sometimes.
Joel OsteenA man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Arthur SchopenhauerEach time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
Joyce MeyerYou can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mahatma GandhiRebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.
Taylor SwiftExcess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
PlatoMost liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.
Joe BidenSurrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador DaliEvery family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Margaret ThatcherDesire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William ShakespeareI am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘
Billy GrahamThe law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David ThoreauFearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
Thich Nhat HanhLiberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYoung people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
Haruki MurakamiI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas JeffersonAt the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.
Anthony BourdainI think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.
Douglas AdamsI sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George OrwellYesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil GibranIsrael was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy