Freedom Quotes

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

"A salesman is got to dream, boy."

"A world of pure imagination"

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

"All men are created equal."

"All the turtles are free."

"All this happened, more or less."

"All you need is love"

"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."

"And it'd be our own, an' nobody could can us."

"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

"Because it is my name!"

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

"But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."

"But you just gotta understand that that’s the way it is and keep on steppin'."

"Come together, right now, over me."

"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"

"Everything the light touches is our kingdom."

"Get up offa that thing and dance 'till you feel better!"

"Give me liberty, or give me death!"

"Goodness gracious, great balls of fire."

"Hakuna Matata."

"He ain't no drag—Papa's got a brand new bag."

"Hideous monster!"

"Hope is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul"

"How dreary — to be — Somebody!
How public — like a Frog —"

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"I am a golden god."

"I am an invisible man."

"I celebrate myself"

"I feel good, I knew that I would, now."

"I have a dream"

"I have not yet begun to fight."

"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom."

"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged."

"I rise"

"I see a red door and I want it painted black."

"I was cured all right!"

"I'm just a hunk, a hunk of burning love."

"I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain."

"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."

"Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"It's all right, I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash."

"Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."

"Let my people go"

"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

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

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."

"No mere mortal can resist the evil of the thriller."

"O Solomon don’t leave me here..."

"Oh Philadelphia freedom, shine on me, I love you."

"Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!"

"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them"

"One thing I can tell you is you got to be free."

"Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's."

"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning."

"She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom!"

"So Joab put the words in her mouth."

"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause."

"So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!"

"Somewhere over the rainbow."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

"Tear down this wall!"

"Tell all the truth but tell it slant"

"That is the life of men."

"That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just…comfortably share silence."

"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind"

"The British are coming!"

"The claaaww!"

"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."

"The list is an absolute good. The list is life."

"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried."

"This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom."

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

"Till this moment I never knew myself."

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"We are not makers of history; we are made by history."

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us."

"We must guard against […] unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."

"We shall never surrender."

"We the people…"

"We will, we will rock you."

"Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk..."

"When in the course of human events…"

"Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there."

"You can't pray a lie—I found that out."

"You don't have to put on the red light."

"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."

"You know it don’t take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?"

"You may lie."

"You take the blue pill […] You take the red pill."

"You're on your own."