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 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.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

History is written by the victors.

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

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

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

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

London is a roost for every bird.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I can do whatever I want.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

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.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

I am the freest author in the world.

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.

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

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.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

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.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

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

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

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

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