"Anyone willing to give up liberty in..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.”

“No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.”

“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”

“Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.”

“If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.”

“The only security of all is in a free press.”

“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”

“The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.”

“Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.”