Independence is my happiness.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Freedom exists not to do what you like but to have the right to do what you ought.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.