Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Democracy is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting the rights of other people. Democracy is no harlot to be picked up in the street by a man with a tommy gun. I trust the people, the mass of the people, in almost any country, but I like to make sure that it is the people and not a gang of bandits who think that by violence they can overturn constituted authority.

A free Press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that freemen prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.

I believe the Declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.