A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

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.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Freedom is from within.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Freedom lies in being bold.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

One word, Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

There is a justifiable reaction against a type of religion which imposed rigid restrictions on any kind of rational enjoyment, while it left men free to exploit one another and to make life hideous in the race for wealth.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Thought is free.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

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

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.