To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that, in Europe, we’re probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

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

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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 tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

I have the space and liberty to create.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

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.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

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

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn’t have to define you. It doesn’t have to limit you.

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.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

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.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

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

All I’m for is the liberty of the individual.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

I’m a free spirit.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.