The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.