Quotes about Freedom
America is the only place where man is full-grown!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
- Henry David Thoreau
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
- Herbert Hoover
Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.
- James Madison
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
- Johannes Tauler
Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!
- John Eldredge