The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's dignity without intruding upon the liberty of others.
I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party.
There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
Reason and freedom are incompatible with weakness.
It is in anguish that man becomes conscious of his freedom.
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black.
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion
I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
Untie, liberate, and do not be afraid. He who is free is disarmed.
That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
