All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

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.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

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.

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

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

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

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.

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 don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

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

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

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

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

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.

Now I do whatever I want.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

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

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

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.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

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

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

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

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

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

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

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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.

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.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.