Deep Thinkers Online - "Give me liberty or death - if it's OK with you."

***Let's discuss the different ways that 'Liberty' is seen around the world. How did these views evolve, and where are they going?*** Is there something more important than life itself? Is there a 'hill' you're prepared to die on to defend a fundamental principle or belief. Liberty is a value, not an instinct. It's hard won but easily lost. Driven by apathy and complacency, are we allowing long-held freedoms to be slowly eroded away, one law (policy or international agreement) at a time? The bigger the state, the smaller the citizen. *"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty*." __Thomas Jefferson. Our children will forget the freedoms we enjoyed, that our grandparents fought so hard to win. [On March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, Patrick Henry delivered his Liberty or Death speech at the 2nd Virginia Convention.](https://youtu.be/DbghWFMLyiA?si=TdVUScCjKKbl1bmy)