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"In the society where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism"
George Orwell, Author
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"
George Orwell, Author
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows"
George Orwell, Author
"It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"Freedom is not enough"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being"
Malcolm X, Activist
"I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free"
Muhammad Ali, Athlete
"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"The press is the enemy"
Richard M. Nixon, President
"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"The willingness to share does not make one charitable;it makes one free"
Robert Brault, Philosopher
"When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near"
Will Durant, Historian
"As soon as liberty is complete, it dies in anarchy"
Will Durant, Historian
"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought"
Lord Acton, Historian
"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It Is itself the highest political end"
Lord Acton, Historian
"To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?"
Jimi Hendrix, Musician
"White collar conservative flashin' down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high"
Jimi Hendrix, Musician
"There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty"
Marcus Garvey, Publisher
"Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa"
Marcus Garvey, Publisher
"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members"
Harry S. Truman, President
"Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves"
Simon Bolivar, Leader
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once"
Robert A. Heinlein, Writer
"Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country"
Dan Rather, Journalist
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual"
Frank Herbert, Writer
"From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation"
Jesse Jackson, Activist
"From politics, it was an easy step to silence"
Jane Austen, Writer
"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves"
George Washington, President
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