"The liberty of a democracy is not..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt

“I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.”

“Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.”

“Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.”

“If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free”

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

“This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.”

“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?”

“You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!”

“Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.”