True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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

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

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

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.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

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.

Only the educated are free.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

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.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

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.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

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.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

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

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

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

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

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

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

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

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.

All men hate the nagging.

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

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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

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.