Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.
No chains around my feet, But I'm not free.
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.
The only time you can be completely free from risk is when you're in prison.
What they're doing is, they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us.
Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.
[Referring to the Philippines:] Freedom and its blessings are a reality for a minority and an illusion for the many.
If you're famous, you're not free.
[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom.
Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.
The old theory was, that the least possible should be left to the choice of the individual agent; that all he had to do should, as far as practicable, be laid down for him by superior wisdom. Left to himself he was sure to go wrong.
Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.
The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
I'm a free man now, except I cannot leave China. You know, I have no desire to travel. I have so many things to do; I cannot finish them now.
The quality of life decreases with heightened security.
But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.
