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"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties"
John Milton, Poet
"It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"The most important political office is that of the private citizen"
Louis D. Brandeis, Judge
"The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion"
Matthew Arnold, Poet
"Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast"
Ken Kesey, Author
"Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule"
Gerald R. Ford, President
"Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break"
Patrick McGoohan, Actor
"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all"
Rosa Luxemburg, Activist
"In a free society, the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists"
Abbie Hoffman, Activist
"I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat"
E. B. White, Writer
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there"
Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist
"The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth"
Daniel Keys Moran, Writer
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
W. E. B. Du Bois, Writer
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone"
Frederic Bastiat, Economist
"Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property"
Frederic Bastiat, Economist
"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom"
Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist
"The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others"
Ulrich Beck, Sociologist
"Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power"
Ulrich Beck, Sociologist
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry, Politician
"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
Patrick Henry, Politician
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him"
John Morley, Statesman
"The great object is that every man be armed"
Patrick Henry, Politician
"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men"
Mortimer Adler, Philosopher
"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher
"To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain"
Louis L'Amour, Author
"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist"
Salman Rushdie, Novelist
"Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks"
Stokely Carmichael, Activist
"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more"
Stokely Carmichael, Activist
"A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production"
Robert Anton Wilson, Writer
"And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset"
Pat Robertson, Clergyman
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