Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

I don't think that Dr. Kevorkian, by martyring himself, does anybody any good,