If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Beautiful speech doesn’t need protection, it’s ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don’t have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation’s interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation’s interest.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

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

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I get a more passionate delivery when I just go in the booth and let the music talk.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

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.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

There are really two core principles at play here. There’s giving people a voice so that people can express their opinions. Then, there’s keeping the community safe, which I think is really important. We’re not gonna let people plan violence or attack each other or do bad things.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

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

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.