"When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it's a success. It's not popularity for our code but it's success for our goal."

"Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy."

"If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase."

"In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't."

"Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended."

"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."

"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure."

"I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas."