The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

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

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

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.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

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

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

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

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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.

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.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

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.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

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

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

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

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

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 only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.