Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

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

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

I think whenever something is – whenever there’s something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

We humans for millions of years were nomadic. We associated freedom and well-being with the ability to move into open spaces, to find places more suited to hunting.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

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.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

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

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

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.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

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

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

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.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

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

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

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

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.