evidence: Quotes of the Week: Our God-Given Rights "I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit." ― Theodore Roosevelt "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." ― Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." ― Thomas Paine "This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself." ― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." ― John Milton , Areopagitica