Lapham’s Quarterly

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

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

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

I prefer liberty with unquiet to slavery with quiet.

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

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

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

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

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

I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.