There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

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

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

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

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.

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

The real minimum wage is zero.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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.

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

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

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 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.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

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

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

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

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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 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 not enough.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

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.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

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.

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.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.