Liberty Quotes

I hate flying these days.

Liberty - Wikiquote:

• The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
  • Thomas Jefferson

• Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
  • Thomas Jefferson

• It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
  • Thomas Jefferson
    

This last one was on the same Wikiquote page, and I thought it was cool, though not applicable to passing through an airport.

• It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defense of our nation worthwhile.
• Earl Warren

• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.…The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.
  • Ronald Reagan