It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

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.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

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.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

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

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Only the educated are free.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

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

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.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

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.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

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.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.