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

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

I don’t just listen to rap.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

There’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

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.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

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.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

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.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.