When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books