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.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

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

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

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

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

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

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

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.

The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

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.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

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

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

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

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

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

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

Where liberty is, there is my country.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.