Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.

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

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

That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.