You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I need freedom to be happy.

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Going braless is one's freedom.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

To be stripped of your freedom, to be stripped of your dignity and the respect you once had, to lose it all and then see life pass you by while you're sitting inside a prison cell, to wake up one day and get it all back - it's a very humbling feeling.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.