No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

To be true to one’s own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

A free people claim their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce.