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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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?
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
Starship Troopers
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.