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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

“If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.”

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”

“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”