“I like the dream of the future better than the history of the past.”~Thomas Jefferson

"Freedom does not give us the right to do what we want, but the power to do what is right." ~Unknown

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~Dick Cheney

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan

No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"? ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William Faulkner

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. ~Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888

Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown