Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

I know no way of judging the future but by the past.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

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.

The great object is that every man be armed.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

If this be treason, make the most of it!

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

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

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.

I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.

We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.

Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.

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

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it Almighty God I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death

The people have a right to keep and bear arms.

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

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

When liberty returns, I will return.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.