Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

A right delayed is a right denied.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.