There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

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

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

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

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

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

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

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.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.