7,738 Quotes About Freedom

The trouble with this country...is that we are utterly surrounded by busybodies trying to stop us doing things. Or telling us what to do...Big Brother, with his ubiquitous closed-circuit cameras-which now monitored, it seemed, every square inch of public space-and his condescending imprecations and warnings, was everywhere...In his view, it was up to the individual whether or not to approach a cliff edge; it was not the Government's business.

It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath my feet, and somewhere out there, in the farmsteads and plantations ahead of me, swift retribution! Freedom! The bloody work of the Lord!

America is an idea more than anything. Promising ideas need to be nurtured, not battered.

I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. If we cannot change the world, let's at least change our lives and live them freely.

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

Freedom is a hard habit to break.

No freedom till we're equal. Damn right I support it.

And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world?