liberty

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
- Benjamin Franklin

Why blame the dark for being dark? It's far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it should be.
- Rob Bell

All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when someone nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque.
- Tom Stoppard

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
- Cicero

begin

A little fairy come at night,
Her eyes are blue, her hair is brown,
With silver spots upon her wings,
And from the moon she flutters down.

-Thomas Hood