When a mighty tree falls, the birds are scattered into the bush.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Liberty only survives when it is defended.

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

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

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

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in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

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

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.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

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

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

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

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

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

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

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.