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.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

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.

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.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

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.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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

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

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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

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.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

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

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

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

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

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.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

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.

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.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

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.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

I am what I am. A fighter.

Only you can control your future.

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.

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

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

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?

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

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.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

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.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.