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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.

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

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.

Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!

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

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.