A soul is only set free when it becomes constrained by the bonds of love.

All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.

If you love something, set it free.If it comes back to you, It is yours.If it doesn't, It never was.

To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgment is to be a slave, not a free man. It

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

You can transform your nation into a prison because you are committed to an ideology.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. (A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)