We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Kwame Nkrumah · Axioms of Kwame Nkrumah (1967)

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

“We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.”

“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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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

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.