The Cost of Freedom…
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
— Benjamin Franklin
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves… — Abraham Lincoln
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. — Edward Abbey
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead. — Dostoevsky
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
— Richard M. Nixon
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. — Charles Evans Hughes
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. — John Fitzgerald Kennedy