“I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”

“Alison: I don't think I want anything more to do with love. Any more. I can't take it on. Cliff: You're too young to start giving up. Too young, and too lovely.”

“I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.”

“But anyhow it is true that this, which is our first poem, might very well be our last poem too. It might well be the last word as well as the first word spoken by man about his mortal lot, as seen by merely mortal vision. If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.”

“I've had my wild times now and then — more than my share perhaps — and I don't think I'll give them up, because I like them too well.”

“Liberty and loveThese two I must have.For my love I’ll sacrificeMy life.For liberty I’ll sacrificeMy love.”