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.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

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

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

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

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Society is at odds with itself.

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.

He who is brave is free.

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

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

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.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

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

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

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.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Disagreement is something normal.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

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.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.