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

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

Let no such man be trusted.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

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

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

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

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.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

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 big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

I have the space and liberty to create.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

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

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.