An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize obey and conform to their choices.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

Liberty freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words but human rights is very specific.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

For us holding on to religious rules and following them and refraining from what's forbidden and being diligent with our duties what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television I always did what I wanted to do and if I couldn't I didn't do it. It was a freedom that these days young directors starting out don't have.

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

That's free enterprise friends: freedom to gamble freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.