Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

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

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

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

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.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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

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.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.