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

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

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

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

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.

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

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

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.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

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

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

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.

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

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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.‘

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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

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.

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

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

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.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

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

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

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

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

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 iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

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.

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.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

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.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.