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

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

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.

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

In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.

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

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

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

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

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

I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.

That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.