Dance. Dance, Zarité. The slave who dances is free while he is dancing.' He told me. I have always danced.

I am no longer tormented by an excess of discipline, as I was before.

Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

The young Cambridge group, the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring, sort of voice, and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.

The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you.