They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.

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

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."

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

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

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.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

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

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

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.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

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

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

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

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.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

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