The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

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!

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

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.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

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.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

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

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

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

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

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

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.

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

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

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

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

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

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

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.

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

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

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

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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.

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

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

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

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

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.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.