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

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.

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

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

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

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

I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.

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