"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success."

"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not."

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in."

"Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path."

"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts"

"True obedience is true freedom."

"America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought."

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."

"People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived.'' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society."

"Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose"

"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."

"Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose."

"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."

"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom."

"Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women"

"He stands in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live, and grow, and increase its blessings. Freedom lives, and through it, he lives - in a way that humbles the undertakings of most men."

"Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free"

"We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."

"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear."

"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."