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.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

We don’t hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That’s the way freedom is, and we wouldn’t change it for a minute.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

Fear is exciting for me.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

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.

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.

I can do whatever I want.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

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.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

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.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

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.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

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.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

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

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?