freedom Quotes

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.