No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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

I rebel; therefore I exist.

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

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

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.

Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

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

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.

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

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

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