I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

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

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

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.

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

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!‘

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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

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.

I was raised to be independent.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

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

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I know there’s a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that’s fine with me.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.

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.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

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.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

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

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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

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

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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

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.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

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.

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.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

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

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

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.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

Genius is patience.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.