The American feels so rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.

The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile-it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent.

The dagger plunged in the name of Freedom is plunged into the breast of Freedom.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

The word will continue to fly All over the world. No power can ban it or stop it From landing at any airport For the word is a bird That needs no entry visa For freedom For democracy.

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

The misfortune which befalls man from his once having been a child is that his liberty was at first concealed from him, and all his life he will retain the nostalgia for a time when he was ignorant of its exigencies.