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"Who rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave"
Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher
"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power"
Andrew Jackson, President
"The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough"
Andrew Jackson, President
"The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit, as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none"
Andrew Jackson, President
"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men, and this is the greatest blessing of free governments"
Andrew Jackson, President
"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending"
Andrew Jackson, President
"Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations"
Andrew Jackson, President
"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased"
P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist
"Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed"
Henry Miller, Writer
"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency"
Pope John Paul II, Clergyman
"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged"
Alice Walker, Author
"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
"Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
"If you're going to hold someone down, you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom"
George W. Bush, President
"It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad"
James Madison, President
"The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world"
James Madison, President
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms"
James Madison, President
"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms"
James Madison, President
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race"
Calvin Coolidge, President
"Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead, they are no more than corpses"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"Death is softer by far than tyranny"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"The world will not accept dictatorship or domination"
Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman
"The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm. Capitalism is that kind of a system"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"You can only be free if I am free"
Clarence Darrow, Lawyer
"America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose"
Herbert Hoover, President
"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor"
James Russell Lowell, Poet
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws"
Ayn Rand, Writer
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