I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

The secret to humor is surprise.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

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.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

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

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

My shows are not narratives.

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.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

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.

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

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.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

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

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.