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"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"Taste cannot be controlled by law"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive"
Victor Hugo, Author
"There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing"
Victor Hugo, Author
"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone"
Victor Hugo, Author
"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free"
Charles Dickens, Novelist
"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"When there is state, there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom, there will be no state"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission"
John F. Kennedy, President
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"It is a strange desire to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it"
John Ruskin, Writer
"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches"
Will Rogers, Actor
"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements"
Nelson Mandela, Statesman
"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom"
B. F. Skinner, Psychologist
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