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

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

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.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

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.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

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

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

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.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of 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.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

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

I am the freest author in the world.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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

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

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

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.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

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 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.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Men freely believe that which they desire.

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

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

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

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.

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.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

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

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

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.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.