Ronald Biggs Quotes

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd.

It shall be lawful to any person, for the future, to go out of our kingdom, and to return, safely and securely ...

When freedom returns, so shall I.

I am an innocent man, free from plots, and deny all such work. For what? What have I done? Whom have I wronged? I was bred and born in this country, and who can accuse me of any evil, from childhood up? If I should promise you this, it would manifest that I was guilty of something to make my home a prison; and if I then went to meetings, you would say I broke your order. Therefore I told I will go to meetings as the Lord should order me, and will not submit to your requirings; I must have my liberty to serve God

I still receive very regular death threats that make it impossible for me to return to Indonesia. I think I could get in, but I don't think I could get out again.

When you're in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you're quitting your country and this is treason.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty

Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

I want to live life on my own terms.

Back to prison. Maybe if you fake a heart attack, I can make a break for it. (Rose Hathaway says to Lissa Dragomir)

Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.

Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.

I think if Donald Trump won, I would move to Canada.