The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

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.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it’s like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I’m not fighting. I don’t have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

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.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

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

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

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

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

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.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

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

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

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.

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

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

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

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

We don’t hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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

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.

That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said – one of the famous lady novelists – ‚unhappy is the family that contains an author‘?

I’m a free spirit.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.