Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

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

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

Liberty only survives when it is defended.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

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.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

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.

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

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.

The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act. . . . Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon the definition of liberty.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one.

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

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.

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

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

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.