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.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

The little man is still a man.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

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

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

There’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

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

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

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.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

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

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.