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.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

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

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

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

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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!

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

Liberty only survives when it is defended.

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

Evil comes from the abuse of free will.

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

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.

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

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

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

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

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

When even one American, who has done nothing wrong, is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one.

The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

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