We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

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

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

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

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

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.