Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

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.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‚Harry Potter“s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it’s a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

Only the educated are free.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

He who is brave is free.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

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.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

An index is a great leveller.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Everything isn’t political.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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.