Liberty only survives when it is defended.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

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

Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.

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

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

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.

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.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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

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.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

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.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.

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.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

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

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.