Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.

After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

There's no absolute freedom anywhere in the world. Freedom is always relative.