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

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

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.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

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?

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

America is another name for opportunity.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I’m a free spirit.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

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

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.