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.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

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

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

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.

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

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Oh, I can’t play soccer, and I’m not a great swimmer. I won’t drown, but you won’t see me doing laps in a pool.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Life is warfare.

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.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

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.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

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

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

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Empire and liberty.

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

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

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

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

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

The Ronaldo who came to Manchester United had a lot of dribbling, trickery, playing more on the wings and making more assists.