"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security"

"Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe"

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

"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it"