Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

In short, all good things are wild and free.

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.

The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.