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When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.
If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Lost is our freedom When we submit to women so: Why do we need 'em When, in their best, they work our woe?
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.
Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.
Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.
Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.
Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.
What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.
O, say does that star-spangled flag of pride yet wave? O'er the land of the free, and the home for the gay!
To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear.
Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.
Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.