There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses, the nationalization or expropriation of private property, and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.

I think, therefore I'll think.

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it.

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.