We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

—Unknown

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

—Unknown

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

—Unknown

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

—Unknown

Good food ends with good talk.

—Unknown

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

—William Hazlitt

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

—Thomas Jefferson

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

—Soren Kierkegaard

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

—Patricia Sampson