Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Freedom
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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
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Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
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Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.
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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
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So far as a person thinks; they are free.
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Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
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