Deep Freedom Quotes

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

Only the educated are free.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Retirement is not an ending, but a new beginning — the dawn of new freedom.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

All good things are wild and free.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Retirement brings the freedom to live life on your own terms.