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

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

I am the freest author in the world.

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.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

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

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

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

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

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

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.

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

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

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

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.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

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

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

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

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.

He who is brave is free.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

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.

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.

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.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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

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.

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.

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.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

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.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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.

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

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

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.

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

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.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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