He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
It’s better to fight for something in life than to die for nothing.
George Patton
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin
Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.
Albert Einstein
Freedom, in any case, is only possible by constantly struggling for it.
Albert Einstein
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington
Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.
Russell Pearce
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Learned Hand
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
Dorothy Thompson
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
William S. Burroughs