That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.

Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.

Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.

The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.

Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.