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

Liberty only survives when it is defended.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

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

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

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

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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.

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.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

Freedom exists not to do what you like but to have the right to do what you ought.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

For friendship, like freedom, must be tended.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

No man should be angry with what is true.

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

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.

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

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.