The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.

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

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.