How do Patriots understand the Concept of Liberty?

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

-Samuel Adams

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

-Thomas Jefferson

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Give me LIBERTY

or

Give me DEATH!

- Patrick Henry

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

-Theodore Roosevelt

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

-Abraham Lincoln

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“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”

—George Washington

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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. 

The only thing lacking... is freedom.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

-Alexander Hamilton