My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.