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.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

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.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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.

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

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

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

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.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

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 has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

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

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

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

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.