It is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free.
Category: liberty
Preserving freedom
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Self government
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
Natural progression
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Private property creates liberty
Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.
Neither restraint nor aid
The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.
The American dream
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
I believe in only one thing
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
Liberty is the highest political end
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.
Rightful liberty
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.