“It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.” — John Adams · Letter to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776
“Nations grown corrupt love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.” — John Milton · The Ready and Easy Way, 1660
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln · Letter to Henry L. Pierce, 1859
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” — Patrick Henry · Speech to the Virginia Convention, 1775
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” — George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman, 1903