Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

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

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

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.

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.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

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

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.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

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.

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

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

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

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

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.

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

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

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

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

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.

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.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

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

Freedom lies in being bold.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

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.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Only the educated are free.

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.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

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

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

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

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

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

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

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

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

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

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.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Now I do whatever I want.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.