Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

I hope you don’t mind, but I took the liberty of taking away your freedoms. –Uncle Sam

Rights aren't really rights if someone can take them away.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Liberty once lost, is lost forever.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

If one were to rob human beings of the power to do and say what they please, that would be to take away, and to curtail the first principle of independence.

It's harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.