The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

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.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

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

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

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.

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.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

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

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

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.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Only the educated are free.

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

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.