Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

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.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

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

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

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!‘

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

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.

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

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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

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.

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

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.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

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.

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.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

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

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

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.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

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.

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

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Only the educated are free.

We don’t hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

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.

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.

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

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

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

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 pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

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.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

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.