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.

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

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

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.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

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

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

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

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.‘

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.

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

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Nobody’s indispensable.

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

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

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

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.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Now I do whatever I want.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

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

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

He who is brave is free.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

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

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

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.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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

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

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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

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

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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

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

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

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

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.