Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who’s spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

A precedent embalms a principle.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I can do whatever I want.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

An index is a great leveller.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.