Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

You find out the necessity of Liberty as you find out the necessity of air—by not having enough of it.