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 power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

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.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

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

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

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’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Democracy passes into despotism.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

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.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

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.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

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.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.

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.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.