“Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.”– E. M. Forster Related Quotes “Private property is redundant. “Public property” is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn’t private it’s stolen.”— Gustave de Molinari “That’s what we do in this country. That’s the American Dream. That’s freedom, and I’ll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.”– Paul Ryan “He tried to shape in his mind what he had to say to McDonald. It was a feeling; it was an urge that he had to speak. But whatever he spoke he knew would be but another name for the wildness that he sought. It was a freedom and goodness, a hope and a vigor that he perceived to underlie all the familiar things of his life, which were not free or good or hopeful or vigorous. What he sought was the source and preserver of his world, a world which seemed to turn ever in fear away from its source, rather than search it out, as the prairie grass around him sent down its fibered roots into the rich dark dampness, the Wildness, and thereby renewed itself, year after year.”— John Williams