Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.

More law, less justice.

In most communities it is illegal to cry ‚fire‘ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

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

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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.

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

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

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.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

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.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

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.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is more shaded toward protecting the financial professionals who broker the deals.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.

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

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

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

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.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

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.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

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.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

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

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