Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and...

How often have I watched, and longed to imitate when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who had shipped his oars and lay flat on his back in the bottom...

I never knew I liked to be outside so much. I never knew I liked lochs and views and that, but I could seriously handle living in a cottage by the side of somewhere like...

And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to...

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

A true romantic will break the rules for the right reasons. He will not conform to the ideals bestowed upon him by society. Instead he will fight for a climate of freedom that allows him...

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel’s work and is on...

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

I don’t know what to expect in Cuba, … I think what the Holy Father is for is greater freedom for the church, and greater responsibility on the part of Catholics to exercise their religious...

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation,...

Freedom’s never been free, there’s always been a price to be paid, but people have forgotten; they’re handing their freedom, their lives, over like well behaved puppets on a string… slavery is returning by choice.

We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can’t be both.

Limitation of one’s freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love.

My father used to say that when hunting a shark, we should either kill it or let it go. To cage a shark is sheer cruelty, and I cannot live like a shark in a...

jungle” as our warriors meet and join the battle drum that calls for unity in the struggle for breaking the chains of modern slavery—like the butterflies flying the skies and the birds over the seas,...

Wer seine eigene Freiheit sichern will, muss selbst seinen Feind vor Unterdrückung schützen.

We’ve got this weird dysgenic situation where we’re basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

Yes I pay taxes… There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate,you’ll have company!

Passando fra gli insorti che si scostavano con religioso rispetto, [papà Mabeuf] continuò dritto verso Enjolras che indietreggiava impietrito, gli strappò la bandiera, e senza che nessuno osasse trattenerlo né aiutarlo, quel vecchio ottuagenario col...

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life...

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police … yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and...

Özgürlüğün özlemini çekecekleri yerde kendilerine bir çoban arayanlara acımak gerekir.

It was vision that dulled trust. It was vision that uplifted trust. Let them see how.

A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Though the world might praise him and say he had really...

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to...

The old school of thought would have you believe that you’d be a fool to take on nature without arming yourself with every conceivable measure of safety and comfort under the sun. But that isn’t...

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must...

Don’t exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

There’s an old saying, Zill. Freedom can’t be given, only earned.

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate’er it touches, and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,A mechanised automaton.

America has a unique type of slavery that looks like freedom.

The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…

Alamo has been a strong inspiration for nations striving for freedom all around the globe since 1836. Gvozdansko has not earned public reputation, but profoundly touched the heart of the bitter enemy Ferhat-paša alone in...

I oppose registration for the draft . . . because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

Creative people neither like to be possessive nor like to be possessed.

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction; he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor...

The Book revealed to Muhammad is one and unique of its kind. It has left indelible impression on the hearts of humanity. Nothing can overcome its majesty. The Quran has given new dimensions to human...

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.

I have absolutely no problem with anyone’s life choices. What bothers me greatly is, when they try to force those life choices on others, in any manner.

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

They and all who are participating in Operation Enduring Freedom are heroes,

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.