It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

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.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

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.

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.

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

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

The Internet is a toilet. It is.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I have the space and liberty to create.

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.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.

I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

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

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

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.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

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.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

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.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

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.

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

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet – how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.

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.

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

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 approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

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

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

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

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

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.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

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

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.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

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.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

I don’t think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn’t becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it’s very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people ‚over the Internet.‘

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