Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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

I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.

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

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

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

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

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