To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.