We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.
Void of freedom, what would virtue be?
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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