Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

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

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

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

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

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

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

He who is brave is free.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

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

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

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.

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

I have the space and liberty to create.

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

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

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

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

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

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

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.

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.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

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

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

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.

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.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

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.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

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

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.