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

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.

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

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.