I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance this great land of ordered liberty for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

In many respects the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

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?