“If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.”

One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious.

Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.

All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.

Do you wish to see clearly and be free?

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

What good in a man’s life if it’s not lived free eh?