Walter E. Williams Quotes

I don't want to live like a prisoner.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

It’s often safer to be in chains than to be free.

The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.