"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
(Thomas Jefferson)

"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it."
(Christopher Darlington Morley)

"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
(Euripides)

"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
(Benjamin Franklin)

"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."
(Bruce Barton)

"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?"
(Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968))

"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril."
(Harry S. Truman)

"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains."
(Karl Marx)

"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people died for. An intact flag is worthless if it no longer stands for freedom. A flag burned to ashes challenges us to remember just exactly what freedom is."
(Dr. Mary Ruwart, The Liberator Online)

"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break."
(Harry S. Truman)