"Give me liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."  John Milton

"Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found." Edmund Burke

"Laws are like cobwebss, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."  Jonathan Swift

"Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in
the body of the people." George Washington
 

"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea." James Madison

"For as there is no happiness without liberty, and no man more a slave than he that is overmastered by vicious passions, there is neither liberty, nor happiness, where there is not virtue." Algernon Sidney

"If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are ccomplished . . ." Algernon Sidney

"What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?" Edmund Burke

"Nothing is ours, which another may deprive us of." --Thomas Jefferson 

"The arts are the rainforest of society.  They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger."  Julie Wayne