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

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

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

I have the space and liberty to create.

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

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

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

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.

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.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

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

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

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

Man is not free unless government is limited.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

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

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

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

Freedom is not enough.

Now I do whatever I want.

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

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

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.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

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

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Only the educated are free.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

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

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

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

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.

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.

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

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

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

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.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

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!‘

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

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