Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

—Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

—Lord Acton

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

—Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

—Lord Acton

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

—Lord Acton

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

—Lenin

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

—Lawana Blackwell

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

—George Bernard Shaw

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

—Epictetus

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider