Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

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.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

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.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

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.

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

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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.

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

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

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.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.