Quotes On Freedom

America became the land to which people from the Old World could flee to ply their trades without answering to guilds, farm land without answering to the lord of the manor, pray without permission from the government's bishops, and talk about the affairs of the day without fearing reprisals from the king.

No one belongs to us - not our husbands, nor our children. We can only share something with them.

The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not.

As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you. Also, it's such a strange way to live. But at the same time there are prostitutes who just want to be prostitutes, and this is this woman, nobody pushed her to do it. She's a prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute. It's her philosophy of life.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever…

Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.