We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

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.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

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.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

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.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. 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.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

Peace begins with a smile.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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 think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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

Freedom is not enough.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

We are not at war against Islam.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Peace is its own reward.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

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

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

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

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

I’m a free spirit.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

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.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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.

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

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.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.