#liberty

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. ↗

— John Cotton

#brass #down #liberty #pinch #sea

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#america #could #few #forget #fought

The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#independents #liberty #much #net #obama

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#essential #give #liberty #little #neither

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#cherishes #couple #democracy #experiment #free

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#beg #declining #i #indulge #liberty

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#am #american #cause #changed #downward

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#free #free people #liberty #lost #maxim

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#am #considerations #current #drag #exerted

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#from time to time #liberty #must #patriots #refreshed