Paine Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate. The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children. Havard The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. It is useless to make good laws for bad people.
Public sentiment is more than law.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to reject invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. Virtue is to be feared more than vice because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.