I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

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

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

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.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

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

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

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

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

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

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

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.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

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.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

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.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

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.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.