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

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 course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

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.

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

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

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

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.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I’m a free spirit.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

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

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

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.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

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.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

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.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

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

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

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.

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.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

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.

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.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

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?

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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

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.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.