#Liberty

"The Truth is found when men (and Women) are free to pursue it."

"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."

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

"Liberty a word without which all other words are vain."

"... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!"

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

"The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power."

"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."

"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?"

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

"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade..."

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

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

"You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the state."

"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 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"

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

"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."

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

"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.I attack the monsters, the phantoms of imagination that have ruled the world. I attack slavery. I ask for room -- room for the human mind."