"If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"If I'm free, it's because I'm always running"

"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free"

"The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it"

"We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free"

"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion"