Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

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

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

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.

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

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

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.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

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

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

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

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

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.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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 people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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.

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

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

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.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

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.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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

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.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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

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

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

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

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.