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.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

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

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.