Quotes About Freedom

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

Our forefathers got it; they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.

If we can employ free market principles, we can help everyone.

We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.

I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.

Our country was founded upon the principles of debate and compromise.

Jordans? No. I thought mohawks, leather jackets, studs, piercings, colored hair, leopard print, platforms, all the bondage wear, I thought that was the coolest thing.

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.

I found a really cheap Visograph printer on Craigslist and drove down to Pennsylvania to pick it up and that really gave me a lot of freedom.

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

I'm not being asked to conform to some prior expectation of what a Congress member is, but I'm just getting to be me.

In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.

My priority is having the ability to be creative and to come up with the right decisions and not be fettered. If there are a lot of people involved in decision making, it can become frustrating.

It's always about agency - that's the goal, always, to give agency to people. I think that's always got to be the priority.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.