Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Every President wants to do right.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

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

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

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

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

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.

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

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.