#ed

We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally foreign to most Americans. But it's probably exactly what we need. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#country #exactly #foreign #idea #meditation

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#anywhere #discovered #getting #go #i

I no longer need to be someone's wife. I'm doing okay as I am. ↗

— Linda Evans

#doing #i #i am #longer #need

Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head; And a shout ascends on high, For men's souls are tired of the Turks, And their wicked ways and works, That have made of Ak-Hissar A city of the plague; And the loud, exultant cry That echoes wide and far Is: "Long live Scanderbeg! ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#freedom #liberation #sacrifice #freedom

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#bunch #idiots #politics #realize #tried

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. ↗

— James Madison

#freedom #government #leaders #people #rule

[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection; in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection. ↗

— James A. Michener

#money #wealth #freedom

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ↗

— Theodore White

#become #beginning #corps #correspondents #days

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it. ↗

— John Andreas Widtsoe

#law #religion #freedom

The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry; the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless. ↗

— Decretum Gratiani

#freedom