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.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

What ‚multiculturalism‘ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

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.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Freedom is not enough.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

Empire and liberty.

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.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

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.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

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

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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.

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

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

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

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.