The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

... he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

The price of freedom of religion or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

What stands if freedom fall?

How bad was bad if you were free?

Free men set themselves free.

If the body is enslaved, at least the mind is free.