“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately”
― Benjamin Franklin
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace”
― Tom Paine
“Give me liberty or give me death”
– Patrick Henry
“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty”
– Christopher Hitchens
“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution”
― Thomas Jefferson
“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker”
– John Adams
“There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come!”
– Patrick Henry
“As in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other”
― Thomas Paine
“Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children; but it is our duty to leave liberty to them”
– John Dickinson
“Remember officers and soldiers, that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of Liberty – that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men”
– George Washington
“When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties”
― Marquis De Lafayette
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776
THE next concert in the Shaftesbury Chamber Music series at Port Regis School brings the Carducci String Quartet back to North Dorset for an evening of varied works on Sunday 15th February at 5pm.