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.

Liberty only survives when it is defended.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

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.

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.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

A friend is as it were a second self.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.