Freedom's Mine

Freedom’s Mine
…don’t mess with me and mine…

Freedom, peace in a place deep inside.
Without outside direction or restriction,
taking myself for that life ride.
Being responsible for my actions,
facing blame and praise the same.
Being one with the land and sky,
living in a natural groove,
hearing music in the midst
of a summer afternoon
and on a bleak winter morning.
Freedom, a God given right.
Any government or man
Who would endeavor to take away
that freedom I’ve been given
is not friend but foe
and will be treated so.

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Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary

Freedom: The quality or state of being free.  The absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action.  Liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another: independence.  Exemption.  Release.  Ease, Facility.  Frankness, outspokenness.  Improper familiarity.  Boldness of conception or execution.  Unrestricted use.  A political right.  Franchise, privilege.

Syn: Freedom – Liberty, license

Free:  Having the legal and political rights of a citizen.  Enjoying civil and political liberty.  Enjoying political independence or freedom from outside domination.  Not dependent on others: self-reliant.  Not determined by anything beyond its own nature or being.  Determined by the choice of the actor or by his wishes.  Made, done, or given voluntarily or spontaneously.  Exempt, relieved, or released.  Not bound, confined or detained by force.  Having no trade restrictions.  Not subject to government regulation.  Having no obligations.  Having a scope no restricted by qualification.  Not being used or occupied.  Not hampered or restricted in its normal operation.  Allowed to be executed without interference from the opposing side.  Not fastened.  Not confined to.  Capable of moving or turning in any direction.  Performed without apparatus.  Not parsimonious.  Outspoken.  Availing oneself of something without stint.  Frank, open.  Overly familiar or forward in action or attitude.  Licentious.  Not costing or charging anything.  Not united or combined with something else.  Native about.  Not occurring on the same syllable in all words.  Capable of being used along with meaning.  Not literal or exact.  Not restricted by or confirming to conventional forms.  Favorable. Not allowing slavery.  Open to all comers.

Syn: Free – Release, Liberate, Emancipate, Manumit, Discharge


"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
Albert Einstein

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
Thomas Jefferson

"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."
Ronald Reagan

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
John F. Kennedy

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
Samuel Adams

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
Frederick Douglass

"Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice."
John Adams

"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."
Thomas Jefferson

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
Thomas Jefferson