Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.

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

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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

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

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

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

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 of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.

That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

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

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