The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

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.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

I can do whatever I want.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

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.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

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

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Nobody is my boss.

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.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

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.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

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.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

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

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

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

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.

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.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

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

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

I am the freest author in the world.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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

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

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

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

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

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.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

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