Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

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

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

An index is a great leveller.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

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

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

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?

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

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.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.