Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

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.

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.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

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

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

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

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

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.

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

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

‚A living dog is better than a dead lion.‘ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.

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.

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.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

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.

Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

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

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

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

I know that I’ve been guided by God. I am obedient.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

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 don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

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

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.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Only the educated are free.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

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

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?