Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

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 you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be ‚Citizens United.‘ I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

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.‘

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

I’m a free spirit.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.