There's an irony: He's fighting for liberty and democracy, and back home he's killed because he's a black man in the South.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.

. . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.