"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both"

-Benjamin Franklin

"No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall to soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and constitution of his country."

"Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men." 

-E. B. White  

"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

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

-Daniel Webster 

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."

-Thomas Jefferson

"But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, envinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and provide new guards for their future security."

- Declaration of Independence  

"It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own"

-James Otis 

"The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution."

-John Adams 

"[W]hat innumerable acts of injustice may be committed - and how fatally may the principles of liberty be sapped - by a succession of judges utterly independent of the people?"

-John Dickinson  

"The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness, and the right to worship God according to the dictates of one's conscience." 

-William Jennings Bryan 

"Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny."

-Daniel Webster 

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, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty." 

- John F. Kennedy  

"The liberties of our country, the freedom 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, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of 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 false and designing men."

-Samuel Adams 

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

-Patrick Henry

"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

"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge."

- James Wilson

"Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and suffering, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence."

- Joseph Story

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."