There's two things I've got a right to… death or liberty.

Harriet Tubman · The source reads: “I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to… death or liberty."” · To her biographer Sarah H. Bradford

When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.

Harriet Tubman · To her biographer Sarah H. Bradford (c. 1868), on reaching free soil

I always told him, "I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me," and he always did.

Harriet Tubman · The source reads: “'Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, "I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me," and he always did.” · To her biographer Sarah H. Bradford, of the Lord

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau · The Social Contract (1762), I, ch. 1

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please.

William Shakespeare · As You Like It (1599–1600), II, vii

I am in favour of government by talking. I am strongly in favour of it as opposed to government by terror or government by corruption—or government by bayonet—or government by superstition or government by claptrap.

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “Well, I am in favour of government by talking. I am strongly in favour of it as opposed to government by terror or government by corruption—or government by bayonet— or government by superstition or government by claptrap.” · Coal Trade Benevolent Association Dinner, Guildhall, London, 13 November 1923

“There's two things I've got a right to… death or liberty.”

“When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.”

“I always told him, "I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me," and he always did.”

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

“I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please.”

“I am in favour of government by talking. I am strongly in favour of it as opposed to government by terror or government by corruption—or government by bayonet—or government by superstition or government by claptrap.”

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