Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

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

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.