No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

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.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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.

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.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

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.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

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

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Posture for combat is so vital.

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 final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

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.

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

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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.

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

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‚shooting an unarmed child,‘ when that ‚child‘ was beating him bloody.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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

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.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

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

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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

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.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

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.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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

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

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

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.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

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.