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?

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

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

Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

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

I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.

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

Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.

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

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

That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.

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

Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.