People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

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

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

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

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

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

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

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

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

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

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

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

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

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

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.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

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.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

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

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.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Power is competence.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Now I do whatever I want.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

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.

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

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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

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

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.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

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

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

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.