If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

‎"For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can't help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Jupiter: I am not your king, impudent larva? Who then has created you?Orestes: You. But you should not have created me free.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.