Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

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

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

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

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

I’m a nationalist. I’m a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I’m a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I’m a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I’m a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I’m patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.

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.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

It was an act of patriotism when we worked to pass a law allowing the prosecution of federal hate crimes in the name of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Now I do whatever I want.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!

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.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

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

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

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.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

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

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

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

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.