God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Libraries raised me.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

Where thou art, that is home.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

I like Gramsci. He’s an important person.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.