In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

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.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

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

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People’s Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

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

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

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.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.

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

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

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

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.

If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

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

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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.