There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

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

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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 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.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The American people have not become heartless.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

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

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

I am the freest author in the world.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

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

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

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 ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

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.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

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.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.