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.

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

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

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

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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.

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

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

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

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