Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Remove advertising disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were we'd allow people their freedom.

But if people want to swim in the Thames if they want to take their lives into their own hands then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

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.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

In South Africa we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world who through the use of non-violent means such as boycotts and divestment encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band I will personally or with my fans' help greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

To become self-aware people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic but fundamental right. Without it human beings are reduced to automatons.

Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people that steal or are corrupt that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people or where warranted the reach of international law.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

The worst enemy of life freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom is to make poverty their choice and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands the loser is the law. And when the law loses freedom languishes.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh I don't get involved in politics ' as if that makes someone cleaner. No that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.