Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

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

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

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.

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

I rebel; therefore I exist.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

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!

One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.