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

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.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

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.

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.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

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 will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

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

I don’t go to parties in general.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

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.

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.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

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.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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

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.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

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

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

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

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

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.

Due process should matter.

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

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

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

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

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

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

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.