Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.

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

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

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.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

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.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Liberty only survives when it is defended.

One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?