Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

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

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

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

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

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

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

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.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

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.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

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.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

Only the educated are free.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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.

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 can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

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

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.