You can take my freedom, even my life, but not my thought, not my truth, not my contribution to the history of the people to which I belong.

Rights aren't really rights if someone can take them away.

Options (things) can be taken away, while our core ability to choose (free will) cannot be.

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by silencing those with whom you disagree. To take rights away to defend them or to spend your way out of debt defies common sense.

One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.

But your loss of honor—”
“Honor is a subjective, intangible loss. Therefore our laws take no cognizance of it.

The supreme power cannot justly take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person or by his representative. … Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Ability without honor is useless.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Still, to slaughter fellow-citizens, to betray friends, to be devoid of honour, pity, and religion, cannot be counted as merits, for these are means which may lead to power, but which confer no glory.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)