It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Freedom lies in being bold.

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

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

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.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

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.

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

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

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

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

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.

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

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

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

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

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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

Empire and liberty.

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?

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

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

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

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.

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

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

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

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.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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.

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

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

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.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

He who is brave is free.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

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

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

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!‘

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

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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.