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’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 intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

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.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Genius is patience.

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.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

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

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

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.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

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

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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.

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.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.

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

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

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

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

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.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.