When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive Malcolm X was alive great great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
The financial reward is great and I love the life I have but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world.
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance this great land of ordered liberty for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
In many respects the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything or be anyone what do you do with it?
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted compassion for the needy and the sick or mercy for the child waiting to be born there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
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.
All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases what a waste of good food it is!
Kolkata is a great city has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for and even handling the crowds but on the whole it was fun shooting there.
I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.
I love Caribbean food. It's a great melting pot of so many cultures including the Native Americans.
Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.
It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.