The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

People like to talk about war.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The mainstream is always under attack.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

I wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Children are all foreigners.

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

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

I am the freest author in the world.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.