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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as a quite free society. It's also true to say that the powers that be have so much control over how people think that there are fewer and fewer people who make use of the rights and information available to them.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

America's biggest problem is too much freedom.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.