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

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.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

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 family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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

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.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

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.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

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

I don’t go to parties in general.

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

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

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

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

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.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

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.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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.

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

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

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

He who is brave is free.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

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

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

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.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

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

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

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

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.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.