"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine

"But meddle not with any man for his religion: all governments ought to permit every man to enjoy his religion unmolested. No man is authorized to take away life in consequence of difference of religion, which all laws and governments ought to tolerate and protect, right or wrong. Every man has a natural, and, in our country, a constitutional right to be a false prophet, as well as a true prophet."  Joseph Smith, Jr.

"It is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in."  John F. Kennedy

"This will remain the home of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."  Elmer Davis

"Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written."  Ether 2:12

"Sometimes the power of choice is taken from us and we must simply figure out how to accept it and move on."

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."  Noam Chomsky

"When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea.  He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect."  Adlai Stevenson