It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve and find in that obedience our freedom.

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

Anywhere anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose the choice is the same: freedom not tyranny democracy not dictatorship the rule of law not the rule of the secret police.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

When people talk of the freedom of writing speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose and that is the path of surrender or submission.