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

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." - Louis D. Brandeis

"The arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance,employ for the preservation of our liberties being with one mind resolved to die free rather than live slaves."  -Thomas Jefferson, 1775