Freedom Quotes

Quotes on freedom and individualism

1. Liberty is the highest political end. — Lord Acton

2. Solitary trees grow strong. — Winston Churchill

3. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. — W E Henly

4. He, that is a master of himself and his own life, has a right to the means of preserving it. — Locke

5.No man can settle another's life for him. It is the test of the nature and courage of each that he shall decide it for himself. — R L Stevenson

6.The man of virtuous soul, commands not, not obeys. — P B Shelley

7. Bondage with ease, or strenuous liberty? — Milton

8.Greece - a country that left its people "unfettered discretion to live as they pleased." — An Athenian general.

9.Respected even of immortal gods is he who comes a fugitive. — Odyssey

10. Nothing is harder for a man than restless roaming...— Eumeaues in Odyssey

11....afterwards a man finds pleasue in his pains, when he has wandered and suffered long. — Eumeaues in Odyssey

12. Let none in any wise be reckless, but calmy take whatever gifts the gods provide. — Odyssey

13.Over himself, over his own body, mind and soul, the individual is sovereign. — Mill

14. Custom, in the east, is a religion. — Mill

15.Our mental well being depends on freedom of thought, opinion, and their expression, and on this depends all our well being. — Mill

16. How much happier a life of virtue and sobriety is than that which we call a life of pleasure. — Daniel Defoe in Moll Flanders

17. To think is one real advance from hell to heaven. All that hellish, hardened state and temper of soul is but a deprivation of thought; he that is restored to his power of thinking is restored to himself. — Defoe in Moll Flanders.

18. ...There is an infinite worthiness in man. — Emerson

19. To cast aside all evil customs, timidities and limitations, and to be in his place a free and helpful man, a reformer, a benefactor...— Emerson

20. Values stressed in Odyssey:

• Telling truth
• Helping strangers in distress
• Exercising self control
• Being kind and generous
• Rights of man, justice, law