The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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

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

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

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.

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

Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

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

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

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.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

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

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

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

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.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

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

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

I was raised to be independent.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

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

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

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.

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

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

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

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

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

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

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

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.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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.