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| | Edward Abbey |  | For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! |
| | Jack Henry Abbott | | I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months. |
| | Jack Henry Abbott | | One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. |
| | Jack Henry Abbott | | The only serious crime I have ever committed in free society was bank robbery during the time I was a fugitive. |
| | John Acton | | Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. |
| | John Acton | | The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. |
| | Henry B. Adams | | Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. |
| | John Adams | | The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. |
| | John Adams | | There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. |
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