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.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

America doesn’t have health insurance.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

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.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

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

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

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.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

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

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Only the educated are free.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘