Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

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.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

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.

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.

They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

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

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

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.

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.

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.

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

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.