Freedom Quotes

"Because of you, I can kiss the sky" "I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else'" "Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me" "I've always defined obscenity as any situation in which some people are forced to witness others exercising their liberties" "When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it." "I still have my privacy, which is great, because if that were being taken away from me, it would be very difficult to get through." "The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them" "Not all who wander are lost" "Liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and in the intrinsic quality of the agent." "There's a freedom you begin to feel the closer you get to Austin, Texas " "We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." "Head in the clouds, got no weight on my shoulders" "It is so hard to leave until you leave and then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world" "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" "The soul in the body is like a bird in a cage" "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air " "For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom." "A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression." "Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure" "One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny"