Give me liberty or give me death

but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

And there was a lot of exclaiming about some Massa Patrick Henry having cried out, 'Give me liberty or give me death!' Kunta liked that, but he couldn't understand how somebody white could say it; white folks looked pretty free to him.

... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Gentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why should we idle here?...I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

"a dash to liberty or to death." The

Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. — written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its <i>Reply to the Governor</i>, 11 November 1755

Cato Meanwhile we’ll sacrifice to liberty. Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power delivered down, From age to age, by your renowned forefathers, 75 (So dearly bought, the price of so much blood,) Oh let it never perish in your hands! But piously transmit it to your children. Do thou, great liberty, inspire our souls, And make our lives in thy possession happy, 80 Or our deaths glorious in thy just defence.

For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. — April 18, 1864 Address at Baltimore

If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

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