This young century will be liberty’s century.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

To innovate is not to reform.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

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

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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

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

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

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

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

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

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

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

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.

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.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

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.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

I don’t set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

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