Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.

Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.