Freedom: To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
Liberties aren’t given, they are taken.