Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

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My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming. - Kelli O'Hara

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The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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I am more interested in your power and freedom than your comfort, and that should be comforting. ― Alan Froggatt

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Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. -- Stephen King

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. -- Albert Camus

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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. -- Malcolm X

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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. ― Milton Friedman

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