Post #2284

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
—Charles Kingsley

Post #1863

The hobo has two watches you can't buy in Tiffany's, on one wrist the sun, on the other wrist the moon, both bands are made of sky.
 —Jack Kerouac

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Post #1850

And since I’m well and on the bum again & aint got nothing else to do, but roam, longfaced, the real America, with my unreal heart, here I am eager and ready to be a big busted nose scullion or dishwasher on the old scoff scow s’long as I can buy my next fancy shirt in a Hong Kong haberdashery or wave a polo mallet in some old Singapore bar or play the horses in Australian, it’s all the same to me as long as it can be exciting and goes around the world.
—Jack Kerouac

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Post #1097

The truly free man is he who knows how to decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
—Jules Renard

Post #1012

Without freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
—Pierre Beaumarchais

Post #924

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying "No" to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.
—Ignazio Silone

Post #668

Freedom is a system based on courage.
—Charles Péguy

Post #639

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
—Alexander Hamilton

Post #303

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
—Voltaire

Post #22

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
—David Lloyd George