#Liberty

"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."

"A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be."

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

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

"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"

"It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom."

"I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit."

"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take."

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty."

"I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation."

"Invariably, knowledge dictates life, liberty, and death, but those who have historically occupied the seats of power not only dictate what is defined as knowledge but also dictate what’s included, what’s excluded, and how it is filtered to society vis-à-vis America’s major institutions . . . particularly the educational system; ultimately, shaping the very essence of life."

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government"

"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."

"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them."

"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."

"Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of youth should be accommodated to that form of government under which they live; forasmuch as it makes exceedingly for the preservation of the present government, whatsoever it be."

"We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it."