Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

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

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

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.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Freedom is relative.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Affluence means influence.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

There isn’t a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he’s a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

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.

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

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

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

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

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

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

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.

Nature has always had more force than education.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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.

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

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

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