"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
(Margaret Mead, 1901-78)

"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride."
(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
(George Washington)

"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."
(John Quincy Adams)

"Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see."
(James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding."
(Louis Brandeis)

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do."
(Anonymous)

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl)

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
(William Hazlitt)