We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

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

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

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.

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.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I’m a free spirit.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

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

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

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Democracy passes into despotism.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Where liberty is, there is my country.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that’s international terror, and we can go on and on.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

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

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you’ve been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

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.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

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

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

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

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

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

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

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

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Freedom is relative.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

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

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

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

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

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

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

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.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.