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.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

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.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

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

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin‘ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

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

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

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.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

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

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

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

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

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.

I’m a free spirit.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

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

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

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.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.