Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Freedom is from within.
We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
Human beings crave freedom at their core.
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Liberation is not deliverance.
But it wasn’t until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130’s all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.
Free men are the strongest men.
Freedom is contagious. That’s why despots fear it so much.
