I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

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

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

When even one American, who has done nothing wrong, is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most impressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be saturated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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.

I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.