Quotes on Freedom

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.'

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. _x000D_ _x000D_ You can kill a man, but not an idea.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.