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

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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

I have the space and liberty to create.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

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

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

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

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.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

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

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

I think, in many people’s minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would’ve been OK.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

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.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

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

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

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

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.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.