One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

The jubilee then is about restoring to people the capacity to participate in the economic life of the community for their own viability and society's benefit.

Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence.

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601.

The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.

Liberation is not deliverance. A convict may leave prison behind but not his sentence.

The time for it has come, and it would indeed be strange if, in the present age, liberty, like light, should penetrate everywhere, except into that one place where freedom finds its most natural realm - in the world of ideas.

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

Great are the promises concerning this land of America. We are told unequivocally that it "is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ" (Ether 2:12). This is the crux of the entire matter—obedience to the commandments of God.