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.

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

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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.

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

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

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

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