I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

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  Give me liberty or give me death

  "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" is a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made in a court hearing on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a...

• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

• It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

• What a pity we don't pursue the salvation of humans with the same verve we pursue the salvation of animals

• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

• The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

• Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

• There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

• A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.