Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right read more

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is read more

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is
the greatest of all possible evils; for it read more

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is
the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and
madness, without tuition or restraint.

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our read more

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.