Freedom Quotes
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"The soul of a woman is as vast as the heavens."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"An educated woman is a free woman."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The expectations placed upon women are chains forged by those who fear their liberation."Eliza Haywood
"He is a man of parts and character to whom nothing is forbidden."Samuel Johnson
"Fear is the passion of slaves; liberty the passion of free men."Samuel Johnson
"Let there be light! said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!"Percy Bysshe Shelley
"What is freedom?"Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The path of true obedience is the path of true freedom."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Wit and courage are the true companions of a free spirit."Aphra Behn
"Freedom of thought must precede freedom of action."Aphra Behn
"Damn braces: Bless relaxes."William Blake
"Remove away that blackning Church: remove away that marriage hearse."William Blake
"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"What is freedom but the absence of chains?"Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Freedom is not given; it must be taken and defended."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Men are happiest when they are most free."Jonathan Swift
"In free countries there are always a number of safe outlets for discontent."Jonathan Swift
"Society constrains what nature intended to be free."Eliza Haywood
"The constraints placed upon women are the invention of fearful men."Eliza Haywood
"To be overlooked is sometimes to be granted the greatest freedom."Eliza Haywood
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and occasional defiance."Eliza Haywood
"Freedom is the natural right of every thinking soul."Aphra Behn
"Freedom is the birthright of every conscious being."Aphra Behn
"To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear things in privacy, and then in conversation to come out with recovered and renovated thoughts, is the glory of a free man."Samuel Johnson
"The truest form of freedom is the freedom to choose what to do with one's own mind."Samuel Johnson
"To love is to grant oneself the most profound freedom."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The Savage in the wilderness builds for himself a Rule and a Law from the World of Desire."William Blake
"I must Create a System, or be enslav'd by another Mans."William Blake
"In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."William Blake