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!‘

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

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

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

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.

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.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

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.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

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.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

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.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Empire and liberty.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

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.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

He who is brave is free.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

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.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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