In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble organize and debate openly.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel and in exchange put on a mask.

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.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning this nation trusted in God not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Civilization will not last freedom will not survive peace will not be kept unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains always was.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

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

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Real freedom lies in wildness not in civilization.

Money won't create success the freedom to make it will.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Negation is the mind's first freedom yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it adapt it to our needs, once acquired it can imprison us.

The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence that is to say freedom of observation and of judgment exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is I think to identify it with freedom of movement or with the external or physical side of activity.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

When one makes a Revolution one cannot mark time, one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Freedom is not enough.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion dissent and debate.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up the person who does not want to carry is own weight this is a frightening prospect.

When freedom does not have a purpose when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women when it does not listen to the voice of conscience it turns against humanity and society.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom, and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Yet Freedom! yet thy banner torn but flying streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.

Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms 'nirvana' means freedom from pain suffering and the external world and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted compassion for the needy and the sick or mercy for the child waiting to be born there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.

Everything can be taken from a man 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.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

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.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root and in that freedom bold.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid because freedom is on the march.

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

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

WHEN Rama is installed in the heart every thing will be added unto you - fame fortune freedom fullness.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

Where globalization means as it so often does that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

If society fits you comfortably enough you call it freedom.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

I am interested in anything about revolt disorder chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall " a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

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

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.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really really do.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought they demand freedom of speech.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like but in having the right to do what we ought.

The perfection of our union especially our commitment to equality of opportunity has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said 'In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.'