The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Freedom lies in being bold.

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.

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.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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

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

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

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

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

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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

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.

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

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.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

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

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

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

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

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly – 80-90%, numbers like that – Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don’t like Iran – Arabs generally don’t like Iran – but they didn’t consider it a threat.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

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

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.

The history of the kingdom of God is, directly, one of a reunion. The total divine milieu is formed by the incorporation of every elected spirit in Jesus Christ.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

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

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.