“For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.”

“Freedom is…the right to write the wrong words.”

“Nite Owl II: But the country’s disintegrating. What’s happened to America? What’s happened to the American dream?The Comedian: It came true. You’re lookin’ at it.”

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones”

“Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise.” (p. 248)”

“Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.”

“From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.”

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”

“Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.”

“We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.”

“There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.”

“You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”