Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Through fidelity, we situate ourselves and maintain ourselves in the hands of God so exactly as to become one with them in their action.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

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

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

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.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

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

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.‘

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

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

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.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

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.

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

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

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

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

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.

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

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

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.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

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

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.

We can have no ’50-50′ allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us 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 walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.