Freedom N o man is free who cannot command himself. T hose that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
H e is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside.
W hen the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. N one are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. T he basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.