Freedom Quotes - Page 63

My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.

The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma Gandhi

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.