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

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

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

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.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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

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

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.