Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

You were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

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

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.

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

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.

No Citizen of the United States of North America Shall be obliged to purchase any Goods against his will but on the contrary shall be allowed to purchase whatever it Pleaseth him.

Freedom of choice can harm no one.

You may all go when you wish.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Rejoice in the great, free emancipation of peoples.

I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my own fate. I was forced into it. Democracy came about 15 years too late for me. But I have to say that it's there now, and Czech Republic is a fantastic country; it always was but just had the wrong regime at the top.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

Ultimately, what we're striving for is people being allowed to do what they want and not feeling they should or shouldn't do certain things.

Listen, ladies and gentlemen. America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.

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!