The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

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.

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.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

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

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.

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

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

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

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

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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!‘

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.

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

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

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.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

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

Only the educated are free.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

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

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

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

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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

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.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.