Quotes I'm Pondering November 2021

Some quotes I’ve been pondering this month.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

-Benjamin Franklin, inventor & publisher

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

-Virginia Woolf, writer

“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.”

-Robert G. Ingersoll, lawyer & writer

“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”

-Milton Friedman, economist

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

-Napoleon Bonaparte, political leader

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”

-Benjamin Franklin, inventor & publisher