Freedom

The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.

That I’ve horrified many flight attendants across the globe with my oft-thought morbid ritual of listening to Tuesday’s Gone as we fly through the sky is not my concern. My declaration evident, my truth now burns: there is no preordained destiny to battle, I thumb my nose at fate. I am a warrior. The rules don’t apply.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

I have been so long masterthat I would be master still, or at least that none othershould be master of me.

The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed.

When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a home intact when trouble arises and life becomes a battlefield, home is the place to which we yearn to return.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you cannot have an opinion.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Not everyone can just up an’ go whenever they please!

A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.

How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy.

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.

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

...The most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.