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.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

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

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

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

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

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

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

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.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

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

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

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

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.