The liberties of a people ...

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
 Patrick Henry

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Quotes from the same author

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
 Patrick Henry
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.
 Patrick Henry
The great object is that every man be armed.
 Patrick Henry
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
 Patrick Henry
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?
 Patrick Henry