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

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

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.

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.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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

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.

Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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.

The sergeant is the Army.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

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

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

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

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

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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

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.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

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.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

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.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

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

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

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

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.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.