Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.

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

Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!