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

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

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.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

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.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

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 really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

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

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

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

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

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

I am the freest author in the world.

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

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.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

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

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

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

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.