quest for autonomy Quotes

The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.

I have no doubt about it. I think this is a part of the nature of man, a desire for freedom, for dignified life.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.