Bikram Choudhury Quotes

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

The free society tolerates those within it who would use that freedom to destroy it.

The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty.

Our country is too big for union, too sordid for patriotism, too democratic for liberty.

I love being an American, and it's a beautiful country, but we are a bunch of whack jobs. We have got so much to learn.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

It is kind of a problem in America that so many Americans believe if they elect a different president, everything is going to be fine.

We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.

In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they want to see. Perhaps it is something that is almost written into your cultural DNA: a desire to answer your Founding Fathers' call to create a 'more perfect union.'

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

Self government is the hardest thing that people can do other than fighting a civil war.

It's very easy for liberals and conservatives to agree upon liberty, but it is harder for them to agree upon equality.

[The freeholders are] the best guardians of liberty, and the restrictions of the right [of suffrage] to them was a necessary defense against the dangerous influence of those multitudes without property and without principle with which our country, like all others, will in time abound.

Freedom cannot long service where defiance and contempt are tolerated or condoned. That is why our country can ill-afford the binge of so called "civil disobedience" which has erupted on the streets ... and across the campuses of many colleges and universities.