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.

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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

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.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

All great achievements require time.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

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.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there.

You either make dust or eat dust.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

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.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

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

In testing, you make a mistake, you just say ‚OK we’ll have another go‘ instead of it being the only chance you get.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

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