Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

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

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

Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of read more

Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win read more

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest read more

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes read more

To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort in.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.