The right to dissent is one of the great and cherished freedoms that we enjoy by reason of the excellent accident of our American births.
Freedom of political speech will never justify violence.
Republics are not in and of themselves better than other forms of government except in so far as they carry with them and guarantee to the citizen that liberty of thought and action for which they were established.
Everyone is entitled to their own political opinions. It is what makes our country great.
Why not liberate voters to actually vote your values?
What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
The discussion of any subject is a right that you have brought into the world with your heart and tongue. Resign your heart's blood before you part with this inestimable privilege of man.
There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
We live in a democracy. We don't have to tell the people how to vote.
We are all allowed to support whoever we'd like to in this country. That's the greatest part about being an American - one of them, that is; you know what I mean?
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.
Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.