Freedom

Famous quotes containing the word freedom:

    That is coupled to foul thraldom.
    But if he had assayed it,
    Then all perquer he should it wit;
    And should think freedom more to prize
    Than all the gold in world that is.
    John Barbour (1316?–1395)

    What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)