“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter
“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
“There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
“Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free
“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray