"You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free if only I am free"

- Clarence Darrow

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves ."

-Abraham Lincoln

"These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon it's goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated." 

-Thomas Paine

"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 

"A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of it's contents."

- Herbert Hoover

"Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry, we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free..."

- Dr. Joseph Warren 

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." 

- Patrick Henry 

"Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source  -- from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth.  They are not annexed to us by parchment and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, with out taking our lives."

- John Dickinson 

"Posterity! you will never know, how much it cost this present Generation, to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it."

- John Adams

"A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends."

- James Monroe