Some excellent quotations....
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ~Edward R. Murrow
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
And if I may be permitted;
I would rather have a right and see it abused then not have the right at all.