I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.

The first principle of democratic government: Respect the people.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Beware of life, it has a mysterious way to get you, when you breach the human rights of your fellow human

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Believers in liberal freedom should worry not whether their regime can prevail in competition with authoritarian ones, but whether they can prevail against their own forms of institutional entropy: elite capture, corruption, and inequality.