A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.