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

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—­democracy to many.

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

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

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.