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By Mary Rizzo • Dec 8th, 2008 • Category: Quotes, ThinkingThey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others. ELBERT HUBBARD (1856-1915)
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
No one can be free unless he is independent… In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence.
Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method, 1912.
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values…and I say let’s get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old fashioned Constitution of the United States – and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. American Writer