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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“To cease to think creatively is to cease to live”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.”
― Joan Jett

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You got nothing to lose, you don't lose when you lose fake friends.”
― Joan Jett

“Live Large!”
― Don Pendleton

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

“I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“The desire to write grows with writing.”
― Erasmus

“Your library is your paradise.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus