Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

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

I think everyone should be with who they love.

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

I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

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

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

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

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

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

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

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

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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.

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.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

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.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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.

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

Now I do whatever I want.

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.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

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.‘

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Freedom is not enough.

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

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

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

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

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

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.