We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

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

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

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.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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

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.‘

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

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

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

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

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

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

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

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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

Empire and liberty.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

I’m a free spirit.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

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.

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

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

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

He who is brave is free.

I can do whatever I want.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

Freedom is not enough.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

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