True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

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

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

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

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

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

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

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

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.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

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

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

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

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

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.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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

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

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

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.

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.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

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.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

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

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.