Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Self Emancipation

Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery.

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away.

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

Resolve and thou art free.