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Your Quotes for 23 March 2006 - Liberty

It was on this day in 1775 that Patrick Henry rose to address the Virginia House of Burgesses, including the memorable "Give me liberty or give me death!" I'm not sure I'm brave enough to go that far, but I hope I am if it ever comes down to it. And I'm never reluctant to use Liberty for the day's theme.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
     - Arthur Clive Howard Bell, 1881 - 1964

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
     - Ignazio Silone

Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.
     - Maria Montessori, 1870 - 1952

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
     - Charles Evans Hughes, 1862 - 1948

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.
     - John Adams, 1735 - 1826

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
     - Patrick Henry, 1736 - 1799

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