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.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

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

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

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

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

‚My country, right or wrong‘ is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‚My mother, drunk or sober.‘

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

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.

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.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

NATO’s essentially run by the United States.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‚indoctrination‘, we might say – exercised through the mass media.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

I don’t believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person. And don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.