"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."--George Washington "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."--Thomas Jefferson "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin "I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death."--Patrick Henry "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."--John Adams "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."--James Madison "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."--Abraham Lincoln "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe