"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom"

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men"

"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"

"Creativity seems to emerge from multiple experiences, coupled with a well-supported development of personal resources, including a sense of freedom to venture beyond the known"

"Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much"

"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride"

"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"

"When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out"

"Freedom is not something that can be given, it is something that must be fought for"

"As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken"

"And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech"