“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
Mahatma Gandhi
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
Thomas Jefferson
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin