The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

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

You find out the necessity of Liberty as you find out the necessity of air—by not having enough of it.

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

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

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.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

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

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

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

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

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in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Liberty only survives when it is defended.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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.