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

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

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

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

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.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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 always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

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.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

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

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

I’m a free spirit.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

He who is brave is free.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

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.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.