"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Freedom More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Personality is everything in art and poetry." "Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds." "One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste." More In Freedom "We’re giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed."― Glenn Beck "An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others."― George Soros "The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."― Lucius Annaeus Seneca