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

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.