This young century will be liberty’s century.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

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.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

If it’s illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.

Only the educated are free.

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

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.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

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.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

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.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

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

Freedom is relative.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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.

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

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.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

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

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

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

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I can do whatever I want.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

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

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.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

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