Liberty

“You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve YOUR freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it.”
-John Adams

 

New Hampshire, Live Free or Die – The Free State Project

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

“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”

Thomas Jefferson
“Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”  –“Message to Those Participating in Roosevelt Day Commemoration, 29 January 1961.” Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers.