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.

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.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

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

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

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

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?

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

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

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

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

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.

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

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

Only the educated are free.

He who is brave is free.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

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.

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

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

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.

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.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

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

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