People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

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.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

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.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

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.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

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.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

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.

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.

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

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

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.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

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

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

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

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

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

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

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

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his 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.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

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.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.