The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

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.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

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

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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

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

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

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

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

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

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

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.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

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.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

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

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.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

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.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

I have the space and liberty to create.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

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

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

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

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.