Archibald MacLeish

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. ”

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. ”

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity. ”

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ”