“You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.”– Tertullian Related Quotes “He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.”— James H. Douglas “Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.”— Walter Colton