There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light—so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.

I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man, woman, and

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

disregard the opinions of those you don't aspire to be, that's the first step to finding your own two feet.

...shiny trinkets and frivolous spending make people forget what world they're living in.

Never let anyone define who you are or decide who you should become.

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

When people say I'm powerful, it scares me in a way. If you saw what I see when I wake up in the morning, you wouldn't think that either.

You might be a redneck if you see a sign that says Say No To Crack and it reminds you to pull your jeans up.

My lady makes me do it. I sang Whitney Houston's "Bodyguard".

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.

Familiarity can blind too.