One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

Now I do whatever I want.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Freedom is relative.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

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

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I’m lucky that, despite all the bad press I’ve had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

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

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

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

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.