“Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.”
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“What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'”
“The precondition to freedom is security.”
“The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.”
“But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.”
“We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.”
“A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.”
“No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.”
“Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.”
“To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.”
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”
“And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.”
“The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.”
“Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.”
“The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.”
“As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.”
“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.”
“Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.”
“In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.”
“The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.”
“When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.”
“For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.”
“Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.”
“I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.”