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"He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free"
Victor Hugo, Author
"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty"
Plato, Philosopher
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination"
Robert Frost, Poet
"Freedom lies in being bold"
Robert Frost, Poet
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"That government is best which governs least"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave"
Seneca the Younger, Statesman
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: Therefore they do not believe in dying completely"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it"
John F. Kennedy, President
"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth"
John F. Kennedy, President
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people"
John F. Kennedy, President
"The best road to progress is freedom's road"
John F. Kennedy, President
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty"
John F. Kennedy, President
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
John F. Kennedy, President
"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all"
Lord Byron, Poet
"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people"
Lord Byron, Poet
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