A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

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

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

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

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

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

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

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

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

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.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.