The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
My father always said, ‘Malala will be free as a bird.’
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
