"I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave"

"Software is like sex: it's better when it's free"

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"

"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves"

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free"

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

"A hungry man is not a free man"

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves"

"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection"

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free"

"To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience"