Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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.

Due process should matter.

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

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

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.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

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.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

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

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

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

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

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.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

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

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

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.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

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.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Empire and liberty.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

America is another name for opportunity.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.