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.

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

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

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 was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

America’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

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

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

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.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

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.

I love diversity.

I’m a free spirit.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

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.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.