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"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards, and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks"
Samuel Adams, Revolutionary
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself"
Potter Stewart, Judge
"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world"
Kofi Annan, Statesman
"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts"
Harold Macmillan, Politician
"Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us"
Barbara Jordan, Politician
"If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously"
Ken Kesey, Author
"We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada"
Pierre Trudeau, Statesman
"Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters"
Rosa Luxemburg, Activist
"I think that people should be able to express themselves in whatever way they want"
Kesha, Musician
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it"
Abbie Hoffman, Activist
"The king must die so that the country can live"
Maximilien Robespierre, Leader
"Censorship is advertising paid by the government"
Federico Fellini, Director
"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit"
Abbie Hoffman, Activist
"Independence is happiness"
Susan B. Anthony, Activist
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else"
Frederic Bastiat, Economist
"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it"
Prince Charles, Royalty
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry, Politician
"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher
"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet
"There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates"
Pervez Musharraf, Statesman
"Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one"
Pervez Musharraf, Statesman
"Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?"
Joseph Howe, Politician
"Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?"
Joseph Howe, Politician
"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always"
Guy Debord, Writer
"The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch"
Corazon Aquino, President
"Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them"
Georges Bataille, Writer
"We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior"
Jerry Springer, Celebrity
"The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people"
James Bovard, Author
"While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile"
Madeleine Albright, Statesman
"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion"
William Godwin, Writer
"Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs"
Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free"
Charles Evans Hughes, Judge
"For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground"
Jello Biafra, Musician
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