"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state"

"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind"

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it"

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be"

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave"

"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments"

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership"

"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion"

"The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression"

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought"

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages"