Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

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.

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

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

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

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

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

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Only the educated are free.

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.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

We don’t hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

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.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

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.

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.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

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.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.