Quotes About Freedom

A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem obviously good.

The cage is empty; the mind has flown.

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

This is a great country, in no small part because it is the best country ever devised in which to be a public crank. Never has a nation so dedicated itself to the proposition that not only should people hold nutty ideas, but they should cultivate them, treasure them, shine them up, and put them right up there on the mantelpiece. This is still the best country ever in which to peddle complete public lunacy. In fact, it's the only country to enshrine that right in its founding documents.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.

People shouldn't be embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little silly.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

The body, the house of the spirit, is under the power of pleasure and pain," explains a god. "And if a man is ruled by his body then this man can never be free.

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.

Anything for Human Rights is constitutional.

But an important point is that, once again as with "scientific" proofs of atheism, it is not the cast-iron intellectual reasoning which convinces, but the relief of revolt.

The ideally free Ego would be a lucid calculator of payoffs.

There's a beauty in birds on the wing, That stirs the heart and makes earthbound creatures Long for flight, but the larks above the battlefield Are silenced by the sounds of war. I have watched birds out at sea, Catching the wind, And longed to follow them, To some safe place far from here.

No one ever stepped forward to protect me, Inspector. I wonder why I should feel any driving sense of duty to protect anyone else. Let me tell you something about love. It can be very cruel and very greedy. I've had done with it. And that has given me a freedom that I cherish.

Columnist Joseph Sobran writes, "The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of 'pluralism' amounts to theological nudism."35