It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

We’re not mindless golems, designed to think exactly the same thing. To try to suppress those thoughts is no better than slavery, and being free to say what you want, write what you want or...

Each person carries within their core the birthright of creative freedom, which, when organized and orchestrated, is the most awesome force on earth.

What freedom to be tied up, and still have the capability of ignoring ridiculous, silly conversations.

Peace adores above everything free discussion and expression without intimidation.

Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised.

It only stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves...

Peace is the key to unlocking good people.

Liberation for who does not have a shack and freedom for who does not know how to live is fatal.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces....

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

The most important freedom is freedom from your own self-judgment.

This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.

Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don’t like in order to be...

New Rule: If you can force a woman to look at a sonogram—to see what will happen if she has an abortion—you also have to let her see a crying baby, a bratty five-year-old, and...

Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity — to unbind the martyr from the stake — break all the chains — put out the fires...

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

courage in motion” toward your dreams.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always...

Everything is temporary but the power of Love is Infinite because it is the space, it is Everything.

E: When one has at last reached freedom, can one even contemplate going back?HC: But if it is not possible to go back, or to choose to go back, then it is not freedom!~Ericsson; Hilary...

The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government

Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

What makes anyone think that government officials are even trying to protect us? A government is not analogous to a hired security guard. Governments do not come into existence as social service organizations or as...

I have worn my heart on my sleeve because it is too painful to carry it inside my chest.When I carry it on my sleeve, it has the freedom to exist, to beat in rhythm...

If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to...

He’s got things to do, places to be, realities to believe in. He can feel the phone he’s been told to keep switched off in this communication-free zone vibrating in his pocket and he thanks...

It is also interesting to observe that communal ownership violates every instinct of human nature. It destroys initiative, nullifies free agency, suppresses inventive exploration, minimizes the dignity of the individual and makes a god out...

If this planet is to be transformed for the better, then we as individuals must first transform ourselves.

It’s more important to be free than to be happy.

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

(Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden’s proposal of marriage:)”[W]hile we perceive … the zeal and love of your mind towards us is not diminished, yet in part we are grieved that we cannot gratify...

…though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.

I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you...

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an...

You want to set me free? Do it. You want to turn me in? You can do that too. You’re the only one with the choice. And that bullet in your back doesn’t mean you’ve...

Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.

We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for...

Give as you wish to live, it all come’s back to you. And that’s without exception …

Self-condemnation means speaking against one’s own success. If can’t stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose.

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world and took deep gulps of fresh sea air. It was late in the...

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

La libertad es poder decir libremente que dos y dos son cuatro. Si se concede esto, todo lo demás vendrá por sus pasos contados.

Freedom is inextricably linked to sacrifice and compromise.

In my view, freedom of speech means the freedom to say things to other people that they don’t want to hear. And if that causes offense to them, then that’s partly their problem and partly...

Flowers, fragrance, and freedom make me think of her. Love turns the opposite inside out.

And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak,Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that tiesMy hair…now could I but unloose my soul!We are sepulchred alive in this close world,And want more room.

If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one’s relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one’s doubts. It has a function to be...