If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow. And the foregoing of possessions for which others barter the last possibility of freedom will become easy.

It is not to be supposed that any one will attain to the full realization of what he purposes, even when those purposes do not involve united action with other…

Let us have Men, Men who will say a word to their souls and keep it - keep it not when it is easy, but keep it when it is hard - keep it when the storm roars a…

If the doctrine of free-will has raised up fanatics and persecutors, who, assuming that men may be good under all conditions if they merely wish to be so, have…

The merit and strength of a people are measured by their enthusiasm for freedom when the only rewards from it are anguish and martyrdom, the blood and ashes of…

Freedom: 'It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.'

Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old