Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

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

Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.

The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.

That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.

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