Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Effective action is always unjust.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

A precedent embalms a principle.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some may refuse to play this game, but in the end they are marginalized and forced to play the outsider role, with limited options and decreasing freedom as they get older.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

I am a just man.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Democracy passes into despotism.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go.