She never went out herself, and like a great many other old ladies of the same stamp, she was apt to consider it an act of domestic treason, if anybody else took the liberty of doing what she couldn't.

Every town-gate and village taxing-house had its band of citizen-patriots, with their national muskets in a most explosive state of readiness, who stopped all comers and goers, cross-questioned them, inspected their papers, looked for their names in lists of their own, turned them back, or sent them on, or stopped them and laid them in hold, as their capricious judgment or fancy deemed best for the dawning Republic One and Indivisible, of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

Love sets you free the moment it arrests you.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.