Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

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

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.