“We are all servants of the laws in order to be free.”

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.

The welfare of the people is the highest law.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

I would rather be wrong, by God, with Plato than be correct with those men.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Freedom is participation in power.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

Books: our unfailing companions.

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

Leaving was the hardest most liberating act of self preservation and self love I did.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

There’s a kind of freedom in handing out torches and seeing who burns the bridge between you.

When people are cruel, we can join them in their poison or find freedom in love.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I’m free. I’m not looking back.