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.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

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

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

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

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

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

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

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.

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.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

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

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

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.

Politics have no relation to morals.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

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.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

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

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.