Share this page: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.  -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.  -- Louis D Brandeis Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.  The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.  -- Thomas Macaulay My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.  -- Adlai Stevenson, speech Share this page:

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