Freedom.

“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”

“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”

“The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.”

“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”

“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”

“The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.”

“Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.”

“Reading an hour a day is only 4% of your day. But that 4% will put you at the top of your field within 10 years. Find the time.”

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”

“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”

“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.”

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.”

“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.”

“Better let ten guilty ones go free than judging an innocent man.”

“Only the educated are free.”

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

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

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”

“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

“Responsibility is the price of freedom.”

“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”

“If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.”

“Man is not free unless government is limited.”

“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

“Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.”