Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted all else follows.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion dissent and debate.

When people talk of the freedom of writing speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

The worst enemy of life freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.