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"I feel much freer now that I am certain the Pope is the Antichrist"
Martin Luther, Professor
"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death"
George Carlin, Comedian
"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish"
John Ruskin, Writer
"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail"
Will Rogers, Actor
"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires"
Nelson Mandela, Statesman
"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated"
Nelson Mandela, Statesman
"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will"
Nelson Mandela, Statesman
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others"
Nelson Mandela, Statesman
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish"
Epictetus, Philosopher
"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy"
Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher
"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free"
Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher
"You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul"
Charles de Gaulle, Leader
"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization"
Sigmund Freud, Psychologist
"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic, we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning"
George Orwell, Author
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever"
George Orwell, Author
"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man"
Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer
"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose"
Richard Bach, Novelist
"The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third"
Thomas Paine, Writer
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