Quotes about Freedom

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

One day he lost sight of his retinue in a great forest. These forests are very useful in delivering princes from their courtiers, like a sieve that keeps back the bran. Then the princes get away to follow their fortunes. In this way they have the advantage of the princesses, who are forced to marry before they have had a bit of fun. I wish our princesses got lost in a forest sometimes.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

Strong and content I travel the open road.

That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.