For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Liberty is worth paying for.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
