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"I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy"
John Adams, President
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth"
John Adams, President
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide"
John Adams, President
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves"
Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman
"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other people's money, except when it comes to questions of national survival, when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
"Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person"
William Ralph Inge, Clergyman
"It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression"
Earl Warren, Judge
"Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery"
Wayne Dyer, Psychologist
"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"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government"
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat
"We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once"
David Hume, Philosopher
"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man"
Tacitus, Historian
"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment"
Huey Newton, Activist
"The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people"
Huey Newton, Activist
"Censorship is the height of vanity"
Martha Graham, Dancer
"I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that'"
Garrison Keillor, Writer
"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian"
Emma Goldman, Activist
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election"
Bill Vaughan, Journalist
"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am"
Princess Diana, Royalty
"Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives"
Jim Hightower, Activist
"The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope"
Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer
"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity"
Jimmy Carter, President
"I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems"
Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer
"The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man"
Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary
"It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me"
Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary
"You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government"
Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer
"None of what Barack Obama is doing or wants to do to this country is anything the rest of the world hasn't seen before and already failed at"
Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer
"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule"
Samuel Adams, Revolutionary
"Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable"
Theodor Herzl, Journalist
"But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain"
Theodor Herzl, Journalist
"Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves"
Theodor Herzl, Journalist
"America was established not to create wealth, but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty"
Norman Douglas, Writer
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence"
John Milton, Poet
"No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free"
John Milton, Poet
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