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.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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!‘

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

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

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

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

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

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

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

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.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

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

Freedom is relative.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

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.

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

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

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

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

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.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

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.

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

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.

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

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

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

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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

I think everyone should be with who they love.

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?

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

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.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.