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" The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. "

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" There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy

Freedom

Values

" But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want. "

" Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become. "

" The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went from being feared as Big Brother surrogates to being thought of as metaphors for liberty and individual freedom. "

" The state has not only the obligation to stay neutral in matters of religion but also to ensure that freedom of thought and conscience of all individuals is protected. "

" Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? "

" I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech. "

" Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. "

" It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. "

" Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! "

" It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom. "

" I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression. "

" Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much. "

" Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom. "

" The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History

Forward

Stand

" I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth. "

" America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. "

" I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans. "

" Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. "

" Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent. "

" Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? "

" Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Man

Freedom

Thought

" Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Work

Two

Three

" America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. "

" Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater. "

" Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. "

Voltaire

Wishes

Freedom

" History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. "

" In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods. "

" Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. "

" Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. "