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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.