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.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

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.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

Freedom is not enough.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

I’m a free spirit.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

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

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

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 more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

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

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

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

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

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

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

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.‘

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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

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

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 always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

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

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

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

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘

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

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

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.