When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

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.

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

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

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.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

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

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

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.

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

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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

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

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

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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

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

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

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

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

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

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.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

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

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

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

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.