The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

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.

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

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 eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

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

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.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

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

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

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

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

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

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

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

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

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I’m a free spirit.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

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

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

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.

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

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

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

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

We don’t hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

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

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

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

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.