To be free is to have achieved your life.

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

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.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

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.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

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 mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.