Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

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

No great thing is created suddenly.

Freedom is relative.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

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

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

I can do whatever I want.

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.

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I am the freest author in the world.

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

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

I think it’s important to vote.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

God’s first creature, which was light.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

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

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.