The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

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

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

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

What most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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.

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.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

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.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

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

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.

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

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

He who is brave is free.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

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

We feel and know that we are eternal.

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

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.