Freedom

As government expands, liberty contracts.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

No one who lives in error is free.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Why, headstrong liberty is lash’d with woe. There’s nothing situate under heaven’s eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky.

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please.

And liberty plucks justice by the nose.

Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home; Thou art not my friend and I’m not thine.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t’ other half for the freedom to speak.

Except Thyself may be Thine Enemy— Captivity is Consciousness— So’s Liberty.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Liberty’s in every blow!

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Man being … by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity. Think not the king did banish thee, But thou the king.