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

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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

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

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.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.