Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I don’t want followers.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

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

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

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!‘

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

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.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

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.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

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

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.