Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.