The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

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

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

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

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

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

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.

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.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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

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

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

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

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

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

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

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

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

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

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

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

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

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.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

I am the freest author in the world.

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.