We don’t hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute.

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

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

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.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

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

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.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

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

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.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

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.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

We must be willing to pay a price for 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.

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

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

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.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

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

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

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

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

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

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

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.

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 always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

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

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

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.