America has been the country of my fond election from the age of thirteen, when I first saw it. I had the honour to hoist with my own hands the flag of freedom, the first time it was displayed, on the Delaware; and I have attended it with veneration ever since on the ocean.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.

I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it.

Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?

Information technology is a formidable enabler of freedoms. For example, it lowers barriers to freedom of expression and allows people to get a better grasp of their lives. It should not be used to reduce the freedom of people.

Every industrial revolution brings along a learning revolution.

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals.

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

Whenever regulation increases, personal freedom decreases.

There is not a racist bone in my dad's body. He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

You can only be free if I am free.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

Like the majority of Alaskans, I supported a constitutional amendment in 1998 defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but my thinking has evolved as America has witnessed a clear cultural shift.

From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women.

I'm not afraid to spend money on the R&D that's really going to move us to a cleaner energy source that I think is so much the answer to the issues of environmental responsibility and climate change.

I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.

All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?

Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

Yes, the state must intervene to prevent the exploitation of poor Indian women who are enticed or coerced into surrogacy, as well as to protect the rights of surrogate children. However, it should also be empathetic to individuals with alternative lifestyles who are well within their legal and human rights to demand access to surrogacy services.

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.