Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

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.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

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.

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

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.‘

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

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

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

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

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

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

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

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

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

He who is brave is free.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

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.

Change in all things is sweet.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.