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.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

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

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

I’m all about peace. I’m all about unity. I’m all about love.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

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

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I do my job like I breathe.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

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.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Marriage is the death of hope.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

The way to know life is to love many things.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

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

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘