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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences , injurious to society , morality.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous – if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I do not agree with what you say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.