It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
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.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
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.
To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
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.
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.
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.
Freedom exists not to do what you like but to have the right to do what you ought.
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
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 choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.