Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

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.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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!‘

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

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

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions… entertainment… cares and anxieties… and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

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.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

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.

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

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

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

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

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

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.