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

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

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

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

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.

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

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Only the educated are free.

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

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.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Freedom lies in being bold.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

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

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

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

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Now I do whatever I want.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

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

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

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

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

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I can do whatever I want.

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

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.‘

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.

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

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

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

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

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

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

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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 intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.