Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

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

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.

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

Now I do whatever I want.

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

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.

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

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

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.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

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.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

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

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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 never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

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

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

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

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Empire and liberty.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

I’m glad I can’t vote.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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

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.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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

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

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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

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.

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.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.