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.

Law, religion and tradition condemns and murders while grace justifies and saves

Nice” women, however wronged, would never claim the kind of freedom he meant, and generous-minded men like himself were therefore—in the heat of argument—the more chivalrously ready to concede it to them. Such verbal generosities...

Leaving what is safe so you can be more, Derek said. The cage is what the bird knows; the sky is all the things he still wants to do even if it’s a risk.

Freedom Feathers,” as he likes to call them, that he staples to his chest in protest of any kind of bloodshed.

Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits of the earth, and you hoped that, following you, man, too, would remain...

Without Freedom and Trust there is Nothing to Discover.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

If you dream for freedom, if you dream for love, if you dream for your future, that is not good because that causes pain and suffering.

Pain will leave you, when you let go

You’re free to be free, just break the shackles and run loose.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre.

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no...

Too many things can be free in this world, but freedom is never among them.

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer

Drink freely the wine life offers you and don’t worry how much you spill.

what might have been had his gaze fallen upon some other miserable wretch? Yes, you would have been destitute, starving in the streets, scraping for your next meal…but even beggars are free.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future.

Birds shouldn’t be able to find tearsThey are the definition of freedom

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a...

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner...

Only the inner voice gives us freedom.

How does one become a writer, Harry?By never giving up. You know, Marcus, that freedom-the desire for freedom-is a war in itself. We live in a society of defeated office workers, and to get ourselves...

All longings the essence for real liberation only, Freedom from all sides, an ultimate supremacy;- 43 –

Chcę czerwień zerwać z kwiatów polnych,Czerwienią nocy spalić krew,Jak piersi nieba chcę być wolny,W chmury się wbić w koronach drzew.