. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

He said that when we finally did get the farm paid for we could tell everybody to go to hell. That was what he lived for, to own his farm without having to say please or thank you to a living soul.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. (1778 - 1830)

Anything which binds the child of God and makes him a slave to the senses is not the true gospel. If you have to feel the oil on your forehead or have a handkerchief laid on you to invoke what God has already given to you freely in Christ, you are in bondage to the senses!

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.