Where one is happy, there's one's homeland.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

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

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act. . . . Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon the definition of liberty.

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in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

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

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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

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.

Liberty only survives when it is defended.

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

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

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.