
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. – Edward R. Murrow
The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. – H.L. Mencken
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. – Thomas Jefferson
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed, but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men. – John F. Kennedy
The trouble with free election is, you never know who is going to win. – Leonid Brezhnev
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. – Henry Steele Commager
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. – Benjamin Franklin
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. – Sinclair Lewis
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. – Somerset Maugham
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. – James Baldwin
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. – Voltaire
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? – Pablo Casals
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. – William O. Douglas