"You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box."

"Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear."

"The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them."

"The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others."

"By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation."

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

"Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends."

"The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist."

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be."

"Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying."

"So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom."

"Freedom lies within."

"Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom."

"Jazz is a good barometer of freedom."

"Writing is freedom."

"As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for freedom, earthly happiness, and opportunity for effective work."

"Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river."

"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."

"The faster you move toward financial freedom, the faster it moves toward you. Whatever you want, wants you."

"Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science."

"We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline."

"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."

"Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect."

"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."