Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.

Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Liberty only survives when it is defended.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.