Country Quote by Thomas Paine

“For me, there is no happiness without freedom, and freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security. I do…

— Dean Alfange

“The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will…

— Miguel Ruiz

“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like favor, to those most deserving of it”

— Cassandra Clare

“This is what freedom is: the ability to enjoy and be exactly who you are without suppressing yourself in the form of judgment.”

— Miguel Ruiz Jr

“But there is something appealing about it here too, a freedom, a refusal to belong to theses arbitrary categories we've made for ourselves.”

— Veronica Roth

“It seems that freedom is the most coveted commodity in the world: for just when one person decides to gorge upon it, those around…

— Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

“Freedom is more precious than any gifts for which you may be tempted to give it up.”

— Baltasar Gracián

“I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom. . .To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

— Ayn Rand

“Freedom is never easy to keep and can easily be lost. All it takes is willful indifference.”

— Terry Goodkind

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at once fruitful and barren…

— Friedrich Nietzsche