Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

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 art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way harmed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him, except by the legal judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

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.

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.

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

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

I could not understand how any man could be so brutalized as to claim the right to dispose of the lives of others, nor how any man could be so lacking in self-esteem as to grant to others the right to dispose of his life.

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.