I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth,…

— Theodore Dwight Weld

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can…

— Samuel Johnson

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

— Benjamin Franklin

These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand…

— Samuel Hopkins

“We've focused so long on ideals of freedom that it is this very belief that oppresses us. We all want to be free, yet…

— As I Lay Dying

Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Sometimes you have to risk life, in order to live, and gamble death, to sacrifice life.”

— Anthony Liccione

In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make…

— Theodore Roosevelt

With the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the Republican political establishment has done something it is not actually used to…

— Charlie Kirk

From the moment we expect gratitude, we forfeit it.

— Ivan Panin

Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand,…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it…

— Soko Morinaga

“If you don’t try, you forfeit the opportunity.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

— Guy de Rothschild