The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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.

We misjudge risk if we feel we have some control over it, even if it’s an illusory sense of control.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

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

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

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

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

I don’t think I would run for president.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

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

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.