Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

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

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Racial discrimination is not a permissible solution... that can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause.

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

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly two be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

Liberty only survives when it is defended.

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

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

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.

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

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

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.