Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

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

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

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.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

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

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

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.‘

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.

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

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?

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

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

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

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

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

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Freedom lies in being bold.

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.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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 don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

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

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

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

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.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

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.

I am the freest author in the world.

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

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

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.

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

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.