We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

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

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

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.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

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

I am a Catholic.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

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.

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

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

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

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.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

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.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

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

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

Empire and liberty.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.