Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
Attributed to John F. Kennedy:
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
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