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

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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.

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

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

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

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

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

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

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

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

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

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

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

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.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.