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

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.

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

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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

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.

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.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

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.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

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.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

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.

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.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

I work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

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.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

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

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

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

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

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

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

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

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.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

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

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

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

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.