The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

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

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

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

I love the sea.

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.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Solitude is independence.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

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

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

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.

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.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn’t happen.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

I can do whatever I want.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

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

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

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.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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.

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.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Now I do whatever I want.

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.

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

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

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.

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

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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

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

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.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.