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

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

Before all else, be armed.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

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

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Work alone is noble.

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

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Empire and liberty.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

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.

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

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

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

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.