Freedom

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it … gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

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

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget "men who are the rule," as their exception;-- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense.

What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Your educators can only be your liberators.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

The question is not who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.

The truly free man is he who knows how to decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

Him that I love, I wish to be free—even from me.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until the other is ready.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.