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.

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

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

He who is brave is free.

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

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Now I do whatever I want.

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

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

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.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

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

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

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

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

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

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

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.

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.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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

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.

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

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

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.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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.

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 wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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

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.

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.