"Freedom is not the right to do..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.”

“Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.”

“The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.”

“So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!”

“Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.”

“I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.”

“I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.”

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”

“To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.”