Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

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

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.