MLK...FREEDOM Thread.Post your favorites

[serryjw]

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ~Napoleon Bonaparte


My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952


Most people want security in this world, not liberty. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein


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

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. ~Felix Frankfurter

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ~Edward R. Murrow

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings. ~Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals, 1929


I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown

[Jade Fox]

1. This is a kind of strange one.....

but I like it:

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.--Oscar Wilde