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

I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.

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

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.

That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.

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.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.

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

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

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

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