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

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

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I don’t tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

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.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Facts are stubborn things.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

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

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

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

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.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

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.

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

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

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

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

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.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

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.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

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

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.

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.

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

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

I am the freest author in the world.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.