The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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.

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

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

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

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

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

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

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

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

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

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

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!‘

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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.

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.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Only the educated are free.

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 fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

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

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

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

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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.