Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain which is the positive element of life.

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?

Who is more to be pitied a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

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

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Liberals it has been said are generous with other peoples' money except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment don't understand the idea of freedom of speech and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts patriotism idealism a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

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.

We seek peace knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

When there is state there can be no freedom but when there is freedom there will be no state.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.