Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

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.

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

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

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

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

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.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

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

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

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 boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.