If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man ….
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell ….
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change..
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament..
Free men set themselves free..
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure..
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You ….
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted..
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's no….
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it..
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary..
I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves..
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means..
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others..
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary..
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant..
Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they….
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free..
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order..
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy..
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty..