Phrases about Freedom and Being Free 🆙

Our personal and heartfelt collection of quotes, phrases and thoughts about freedom. A word as important as it is often trivialized.

Liberty can be defined as "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wishes." It also means having free will and living without undue or unjust restrictions or bondage.

For many people, however, freedom is more than "the ability to act or change without restraint." It means guaranteeing equal life opportunities, possibilities and the pursuit of happiness for all.

Freedom gives you the ability to decide for yourself and determine the direction of your life. It allows you to create your own reality and well-being.

So it's up to you to use your freedom to create something meaningful. Pursue a vision and live a purposeful life.

Here are some inspirational quotes about freedom, to give you the courage to make your own decisions and determine the way you live your life.

Phrases, Aphorisms, Quotations and Reflections on Freedom

As usual, when dealing with large collections of sentences, we prefer to sort them alphabetically. This way you can read them all, flip through them here and there, or easily find the phrases about freedom that you have already heard.

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Phrases about Freedom: A - C

In my eyes, human societies, like individuals, become something only through freedom. ~ alexis de tocqueville

To love freedom is to love others. To love power is to love yourself. ~ William Hazlitt

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. ~ Victor Pinchuk

Any price must be paid for the right to hold our flag high. ~ Ernesto Che Guevara

We must always have the courage of our ideas and not fear the consequences because man is free only when he can express his thoughts without bowing to conditioning. ~ Charlie Chaplin

Search your soul, go and smell the wind, go, far away. ~ Jack Kerouac

Some things are not done out of courage, they are done just to look more serenely into the eyes of our children and our children's children. ~ Carlo Albert of the Church

What is the achieved freedom stamp? Don't feel embarrassed in front of yourself anymore. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Anyone who seeks something more than freedom itself in freedom is made to serve. ~ alexis de tocqueville

Those who crawl on the ground are not liable to fall as easily as those who scale the tops of mountains. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Those who live in freedom have a good reason to live, fight and die. ~ Winston Churchill

Close all libraries if you want; but there is no door, no lock, no bolt that you can adjust to the freedom of my mind. ~ Virginia Wolf

Anyone who is a free man cannot remain asleep. ~ Aristophanes

There are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. ~ William Somerset Maugham

There are two freedoms: the false one, where a man is free to do what he wants; the real one, where he is free to do what he has to do. ~ Charles Kingsley

What really interests me is whether God could have made the world differently; that is, if the need for logical simplicity leaves some freedom. ~ Albert Einstein

Those who give up their freedom for a little temporary security deserve neither freedom nor security. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The one to whom you entrust your secret becomes the owner of your freedom. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld

He who gives up his freedom for security does not deserve either. ~ Thomas Jefferson

With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who couldn't be happy? ~ Oscar Wilde

I only know one freedom, and that is the freedom of my mind. ~ Authorless

I believe that laughter is the true sign of freedom. ~ Rene Clara

There is very little real freedom in the world: law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make us all slaves. ~ Louisa May Alcott

There is only one good definition of God: The freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. ~ John Fowles

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Phrases about Freedom: D - E

Give me freedom or give me death. ~ Patrick Henry

Usually when people are free to do what they want, they imitate each other. ~ Authorless

Let us also say that freedom is something vague. His absence is not. ~ Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Disobeying unjust laws is a civil duty. ~ Sandro Pertini

Tell yourself your deepest fears. Thus fear has no more power and the fear of freedom diminishes until it disappears. You are free. ~ Jim Morrison

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to return to, and reasons to stay. ~ Dalai Lama

Where there is no law, there is no freedom. ~ John Locke

It's nice to wake up and have no illusions. You feel free and responsible. A tremendous force is in us, freedom. You can touch innocence. One is willing to suffer. ~ Cesare Pavese

Freedom begins with irony. ~ Victor Hugo

Only those who know how to conquer it are worthy of freedom. ~ Charles Baudelaire

It is doubtful that the oppressed have ever fought for freedom. They fight for pride and power, power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want revenge. ~ Eric Hoffer

It is complete freedom to be able to do what you want as long as you also do something you like less. ~ Italo Svevo

It is better to fail at originality than to succeed at imitation. ~ Herman Melville

It's easy to take freedom for granted if no one has ever taken it away from you. ~ Sr Grundler

To be free as a bird? And whistling a tune, already established, for life? ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

It is very easy, in the name of outer freedom, to suffocate the inner freedom of man. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

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Phrases about Freedom: F - I

Do what you feel is right in your heart, as you will be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, damned if you don't. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Let me be free and I won't need no escape route. ~ LaPugile, Twitter

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness. ~ Authorless

Until everyone is free, no one is free. ~ Martin Luther King

Justice does not exist where there is no freedom. ~ Luigi Einaudi

The eyes of others are our prisons; their thoughts our cages. ~ Virginia Woolf

Happy slaves are the fiercest enemies of freedom. ~ Maria von Ebner

Men fight for freedom, then start piling up laws to take it away from them. ~ Authorless

Men only want one freedom, that of not choosing. ~ Giuseppe Pontiggia

To be free, men must first of all free themselves from the nightmare of need. ~ Sandro Pertini

The limits of the tyrants are marked by the resistance of those who oppose them. ~ Frederick Douglass

The right to shake my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The greatest fruit of self-sufficiency is freedom. ~ epicurus

The stormy sea of freedom is never without waves. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The whole world loves freedom, but every creature loves its chains. This is the first paradox and the inextricable knot of our nature. ~ God of Aurobindo

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. ~ carrie jones

The secret of freedom is in educating people. The secret of tyranny, in keeping them ignorant. ~ Maximilian de Robespierre

Time wasted in youth is sometimes the only freedom a person has ever had. ~ Anita brookner

In fact, few want freedom; most seek only just masters. ~ Cayo Salustio Crispo

All over the world I feel at home, wherever there are clouds, birds and human tears. ~ Rosa Luxemburg

Independence? freedom? illusion of the bourgeoisie. We all inevitably depend on each other. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Kneel down just to pick a flower. ~ Jacques Prévert

I know this: whoever demands freedom, then does not know what to do with it. ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

Phrases about Freedom: L - first part

The current of the river cannot bring with it the clouds that are reflected. He has known a freedom greater than his own. ~ fabrizio caramagna

People demand freedom of expression to compensate for freedom of thought, which they shy away from. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Liberation is not freedom; you get out of prison, but not of sentence. ~ Victor Hugo

Freedom in the singular only exists in freedoms in the plural. ~ Benedetto Croce

Freedom consists in doing what the length of the chain allows. ~ young

Freedom consists in the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If this is granted, all others follow. ~ George Orwell

People's freedom is equal to their intelligence to want it and their courage to take it. ~ Emma goldman

The freedom of each one has as logical limits the freedom of others. ~ Alphonse Karr

The freedom of each individual must have this precise limit: he must not disturb others. ~ John Stuart Mill

The freedom of each one is limited by the freedom of others. ~ Alphonse Karr

Freedom and life belong to those who conquer them every day. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Freedom hurts those who jump out of the box too quickly. To be free on the outside, you will first have to learn to be free on the inside. ~ Massimo Gramellini

Freedom breeds anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism leads to freedom. ~ Honoré de Balzac

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we never had to put up a wall to keep our people in or to keep them from leaving us. ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Freedom does not consist in having a just master, but in not having one. ~ Marco Tullio Cicero

Freedom does not consist so much in doing one's own will as in not submitting to that of others. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom is worthless if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom can only be all freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom. ~ Max Stirner

Freedom cannot be explained. You can only breathe without thinking about it, like air, and regret it like air when it leaves. Unlike dogmas, it does not demand certainties and does not offer any. Its bricks are doubts and mistakes, impulses and abuses. Its borders are blurred, mobile. And its undoing is the absence of limits, which takes away the subtle pleasure of transgression. ~ Massimo Gramellini

Freedom does not lie in choosing between black and white, but in avoiding this prescribed choice. ~ Theodor Adorno

Freedom is nothing more than an opportunity to be better. ~ Albert Camus

Freedom is not doing what you want. Not even the richest man in the world can do what he wants. There will always be the sun, the shadow, the cold to force him to do something different. True freedom is being yourself, cultivating and showing the world who you really are. ~ fabrizio caramagna

Freedom is not an end in itself; it is authentic only when it is put at the service of truth, solidarity and peace. ~ Pope Juan Pablo II

Phrases about Freedom: L - second part

Freedom is not climbing a tree, it is not even the flight of a fly, freedom is not a free space, freedom is participation. ~ Giorgio gaber

Freedom is not a right: it is a duty. It is not a gift: it is an achievement. It is not an equality: it is a privilege. ~ Benito Mussolini

Freedom is not an end, it is a means to develop our strengths. ~ Giuseppe Mazzini

Freedom is not a gift: it is an achievement. ~ asa philip randolph

Freedom means being free from the things we don't like so we can be slaves to the things we like. ~ Ernesto Benn

Freedom suppressed and then regained is sweeter than freedom never endangered. ~ Marco Tullio Cicero

The supreme freedom of youth is the freedom to make mistakes. ~ George steiner

Freedom is hammered on the anvil of discussion, dissidence and debate. ~ Hubert Horacio Humphrey

Freedom is like poetry: it shouldn't have adjectives, it's freedom! ~ Enzo Biagi

Freedom is like air: you realize its worth when it starts to fail. ~ piero calamandrei

Freedom is the right to do what the laws allow. ~ Montesquieu

Freedom is the power to do good, not what you like. ~ Authorless

Freedom is the power to choose one's chains. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom is the most contagious virus humanity has ever known. ~ Hubert Horacio Humphrey

Freedom is above all the right to inequality. ~ Nikolai Berdyaev

Freedom is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of being wrong, the possibility of searching, experimenting, saying no to any authority, literary, artistic, philosophical, social, religious and even political. ~ Ignazio silone

Freedom is the possibility of being and not the obligation to be. ~ Rene Magritte

Freedom is something that is felt in the air. For me, it was hearing the soldiers speak English instead of German and the smell of real tobacco coming off their cigarettes. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Freedom is that good that makes you enjoy all other goods. ~ Montesquieu

Freedom is such a great good that everyone wants to have theirs and a little of someone else's. ~ Francois Dominique de Reynaud

Phrases about Freedom: L - part three

Freedom is a vague concept. ~ Otto von Bismarck

Freedom is a duty, before a right is a duty. ~ Oriana Fallaci

Freedom is a luxury that not everyone can afford. ~ Otto von Bismarck

Freedom is a system based on courage. ~ Charles Peguy

Freedom is a form of discipline. ~ Giovanni Lindo Ferretti

Freedom is a virtue, that is to say, a perfection: everything that, therefore, denounces the impotence of man, cannot be imputed to his freedom. ~ Baruch spinoza

Freedom is a state of grace and one is only free while fighting to conquer it. ~ Luis Sepúlveda

Freedom, in general, can be defined as the absence of obstacles to the fulfillment of desires. ~ Bertrand Russell

Most people want security in this world, not freedom. ~ Dal movie "Minority Report"

The greatest threat to freedom is not in letting oneself be taken away -because whoever has allowed it to be taken away can always get it back- but rather in unlearning to love it. ~ Jorge Bernanos

Half a man's life is spent implying, turning his head and shutting up. ~ Albert Camus

My independence, which is my strength, implies solitude, which is my weakness. ~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

My freedom ends where yours begins. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

My freedom ends where that of others begins. ~ Alain

My freedom is everyone's freedom, since I am not really free, free not only in idea but in fact, except when my freedom and my right find their confirmation and sanction in the freedom and right of all my equal men. ~ Michael Bakunin

The best freedom is to be yourself. ~ Jim Morrison

The Hebrew word timshel - "you can" - implies a choice. It could be the most important word in the world. It means that the way is open. Leave everything to the man. Because if "you can", it is also true that "you can't". ~ John Steinbeck

The basic test of freedom is not so much what we are free to do as what we are free not to do. ~ Eric Hoffer

Slavery has not been eliminated, it has spread to all races. ~ Charles Bukowski

The only freedom really wanted by an inferior man is the freedom to stop working, lie in the sun and scratch himself. ~ Henry Louis Mencken

Phrases about Freedom: L - fourth part

True freedom consists in knowing how to dominate oneself in all things. ~ Michel de Montaigne

Life without freedom is like a body without a spirit. ~ Khalil Gibran

Life is a wonderful fleeting opportunity to catch on the go by immersing yourself in it with joyful freedom. ~ Darius Fo

The things you own end up owning yourself. Only after you have lost everything you have are you free to do anything. ~ From the movie "Fight Club"

Ideas are freedom when they are made, chains when they are made. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedoms are not granted, they are taken. ~ Aldous Huxley

People who are not given their freedom always end up taking it for themselves. ~ Pierre Jules Hetzel

People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought they rarely use. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

People believe they are free, but they are only free to believe it. ~ Jim Morrison

Read, study and always work with ethics and passion; think with your head and learn to say no; be rebels for a just cause, defend nature and the weakest; do not be conformists and do not follow the winner's car; be strong and be free, otherwise when you are old and weak you will regret the mountains you have not climbed and the battles you have not fought. ~ Mario Rigoni Stern

Breaking free is one thing, bearing the weight of that liberated self is another. ~ Toni Morrison

Release love or get rid of it forever. ~ Jim Morrison

Freedom and love are one. ~ Novalis

Freedom means responsibility. That is why many fear him. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Freedom is the right to do what the laws allow. If a citizen had the right to do what is prohibited, it would not be freedom, because everyone else would want to have the same right. ~ Montesquieu

Freedom, the frivolous song of our civilization, but only those who are deprived of it have the least idea of what it really is. ~ Dal Cloud Atlas movie

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity - how to get to the verbs? ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Freedom. 1. Exemption from a small number of restrictions among the thousands imposed on man. 2. Political system of which each nation believes it has a monopoly. 3. One of the most precious assets of the imagination. ~ Ambrose Bierce

The slave has only one master; the ambitious has as many people as useful to his fortune. ~ Jean de La Bruyère

The important thing is not what they have made of us, but what we ourselves make of what they have made of us. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Man thinks he wants freedom. He is actually very afraid of her. Because? Because freedom forces you to make decisions, and decisions involve risks. ~ Erich Fromm

The free man is one who is not afraid to go to the end of his thought. ~ leon blum

The free man is like a white cloud. A white cloud is a mystery; it is carried away by the wind, it does not resist, it does not fight and it floats above everything. All dimensions and all directions belong to you. White clouds do not have a precise origin and do not have a goal; the mere being of him at this moment is perfection. ~ Osho

The truly free man is the one who turns down an invitation to lunch without feeling the need to invent an excuse. ~ Jules Renard

Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Phrases about Freedom: M

But how can one wish for another god other than freedom? ~ Authorless

It is better to sleep free in an uncomfortable bed than to sleep captive in a comfortable bed. ~ Jack Kerouac

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. ~ Stephen R. Covey

You ask me what is freedom? Do not be a slave to anyone, without need, without accident and keep your luck at hand. ~ Seneca

They tell me: if you find a sleeping slave, do not wake him up, maybe he is dreaming of freedom. And I answer: if you find a sleeping slave, wake him up and talk to him about freedom. ~ Khalil Gibran

I like to be a free spirit. A lot of people don't like this, but that's just me. ~ Diana Spencer

Phrases about Freedom: No.

In countries where men do not feel safe in prison, they do not feel safe even in freedom. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

In today's world, license is understood as freedom, while true freedom consists of calm self-control. The license only leads to slavery. ~ Fëdor Dostoevskij

In the struggle for freedom, the oppressed have often only won greater freedom for their oppressors. ~ Patricia Holečková

No bird flies too high if it flies on its own wings. ~ William Blake

No man has freely given part of his liberty in view of the public good; this chimera exists only in novels. ~ Cesare Beccaria

No man can put a chain around his neighbor's ankle, without then finding the other end fastened to his neck. ~ Frederick Douglass

No one has greater love than the one who knows how to respect the freedoms of others. ~ Simone Weil

No one can give you your freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you are a man, you take it. ~ Malcolm x

No one is free if he is not his own master. ~ Epictetus

No one is more of a slave than the one who believes he is free without being free. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No one is more a slave than the one who considers himself free without being so. ~ Goethe

Those who have never known restraint do not appreciate freedom. ~ Fernando Pessoa,

There can be no freedom if there is no economic freedom. ~ Margaret Thatcher

There are no ugly loves, no beautiful prisons. ~ pierre gringore

There is no freedom in this world; only golden cages. ~ Aldous Huxley

There is no freedom if you are imprisoned by walls of discipline. ~ Bruce Lee

There is no easy road to freedom. ~ Nelson Mandela

There is no slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Until we are completely free, we are slaves. Everything is born in a moment. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

No pleasure, no glory, no power: freedom, only freedom. ~ Fernando Pessoa,

I cannot consider a being free who does not nourish in himself the desire to untie the bonds of language. ~ George Bataille

There can be no freedom without social justice and there can be no social justice without freedom. ~ Sandro Pertini

Peace cannot be separated from freedom because no one can be at peace without having freedom. ~ Malcolm x

I don't agree with what you say, but I would give my life for you to say it~ Voltaire

I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it to the death. ~ Evelyn Beatrice Salon

It is not worth having freedom if it does not mean having the freedom to make mistakes. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not really lacking. There are no free men. ~ leo longanesi

He is not free who is a slave to his own body. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is not a free man who does not dawdle from time to time. ~ Marco Tullio Cicero

Nothing can be unconditional: therefore nothing can be free. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Phrases about Freedom: O - P

Oh freedom! freedom! What queen of the universe can boast of having in her retinue the procession of heroes that you have in heaven? ~ Giuseppe Garibaldi

Today I am chained and I am here. Tomorrow I will be without shackles... but where? ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Everything has its price, but no one will know how much my freedom costs. ~ Edoardo Bennato

We get freedom when we have paid the full price for it. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth is to be able to live, if he wants, without working. ~ Salvador Dalí

To understand who bosses you, just find out who you are not allowed to criticize. ~ Voltaire

For many, freedom is the ability to choose their own slavery. ~ Gustave Le Bon

So as not to be slaves martyred by time, get drunk, always get drunk! Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. ~ Charles Baudelaire

In order not to fight there will always be many pretexts in every age and in every circumstance, but never, without a fight, will you be able to have freedom. ~ Fidel Castro

Feet, what use are they to me if I have wings to fly? ~ Frida Kahlo

More than one boomerang does not return. He chooses freedom. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

More freedom? We expand the cage. ~ Jan Sobotka

Few men want freedom; many men want only a just master. ~ Sallustio

Very few know how to be free and very few know what it means to be free. ~ Marguerite yourcenar

Carrying freedom is the only burden that keeps your back straight. ~ patrick chamois

I'd rather be a rebel than a slave. ~ emmeline pankhurst

I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery. ~ Thomas Jefferson

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't expect to have them both together. ~ Robert Heinlein

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can also destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Phrases about Freedom :Q

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. ~ Nelson Mandela

When governments fear the people, there is freedom. When people fear the government, there is tyranny. ~ Thomas Jefferson

When freedom comes with blood on your hands, it's hard to shake hands. ~ Oscar Wilde

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. ~ Bertolt Brecht

When I am dead one night, no one will cry for me, I will not stay underground, I am the wind of freedom. ~ Che Guevara

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege of being free. ~ Charles Evans Hughes

When a man has great problems he must go to a child; it is they, in one way or another, who possess the dream and freedom. ~ Fëdor Dostoevskij

Those who do not move do not notice their chains. ~ Rosa Luxemburg

Those who do not want to reason are fanatics, those who cannot are fools, and those who do not dare are slaves. ~ Jorge Gordon Byron

What intoxicated me when I returned to Paris in September 1929 was above all my freedom. I had dreamed of it since I was a child... And now, at last, I was free: with every gesture I made, I marveled at my lightness. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

Phrases about Freedom: S

A slave is someone who is waiting for someone to come and free him. ~ Ezra Pound

If people have to choose between freedom and snacks, they will choose snacks. ~ Mr. Boyd Orr

If freedom means anything, then it means the right to tell people things they don't want to hear. ~ George Orwell

If freedom is humiliated or chained today it is not because its enemies have used treason, it is because its friends have resigned. ~ Albert Camus

If you set me free, you've already taught me to stay. ~ Emily Dickinson

If for your own joy you need the permission of others, you are a poor fool. ~ Hermann Hesse

If you are free, you are the one who creates the world; if you are not free the world creates you! ~ Efim Tarlapan

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, neither can it save the few who are rich. ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

You have to be as light as a bird that flies, and not like a feather. ~ Paul Valéry

They begin to quote Alain: “one's freedom ends where that of others begins”, but then they think differently: “Yours begins where mine ends”. And that's what changes everything! ~ laurent gouze

Always be like the yellow butterfly that flies over the barbed wire. ~ Liliana Segre

Only those who have overcome their fears will be truly free. ~ Aristotle

Only those who are educated are truly free. ~ Epictetus

Only he who expects nothing is truly free. ~ Edward young

I am a child of freedom, and all that I am I owe to her. ~ Camillo Benso, conde de Cavour

I was born to meet you. To give you a name. Freedom. ~ Paul Eluard

It is often safer to be chained than free. ~ Franz Kafka

I develop excessive attachment to people who give me freedom. ~ fabrizio caramagna

Phrases about Freedom: T - V

Unchaining slaves is easy, but freeing them is difficult. ~ Anacleto Verrecchia

All the best things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ~ Winston Churchill

Anything that increases freedom increases responsibility. ~ Victor Hugo

Everything that is deprived of its freedom loses its substance and is quickly extinguished. ~ Eduard manet

A sparrow in an eagle cage is free. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

A man can only be himself while he is alone. If he doesn't love loneliness, he doesn't love freedom either, because he is only free when he is alone. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

A man is free when he wants to be. ~ Voltaire

A nation can lose its freedoms in a day and not lose them for a century. ~ Montesquieu

Once you've experienced the thrill of flight, when you come back down to earth, you'll still be looking up at the sky. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

A slave who is not aware of being a slave and who does nothing to free himself is truly a slave. But a slave who is aware of being a slave and who fights to free himself is no longer a slave, but a free man. ~ Vladimir Lenin

Free man, you will always love the sea! ~ Charles Baudelaire

Living is not enough… you need to have the sun, freedom and a little flower. ~ Hans Christian Andersen