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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"Smash the control images. Smash the control machine"
William S. Burroughs, Writer
"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God"
Malcolm X, Activist
"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion"
Malcolm X, Activist
"I know where I'm going, and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want"
Muhammad Ali, Athlete
"You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom"
Malcolm X, Activist
"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"
Honore de Balzac, Novelist
"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments, while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"We have confused the free with the free and easy"
Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It Simply made danger and death worthwhile"
H.G. Wells, Author
"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that!"
Richard M. Nixon, President
"The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves, especially when they allow themselves to be influenced by negative people. That's what gives rise to dictators. Avoid that at all costs. Stop it first on a personal level, and you will have contributed to world sanity as well as your own"
Donald Trump, Businessman
"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive"
Thomas Mann, Writer
"I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law"
Will Durant, Historian
"Civilization is the order, and freedom is promoting cultural activity"
Will Durant, Historian
"We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"El Salvador is a democracy, so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: What it abominates most is the dissent of the majority"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority!"
Lord Acton, Historian
"Socialism means slavery"
Lord Acton, Historian
"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that"
Lord Acton, Historian
"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us"
Stephen Covey, Businessman
"If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment"
Jimi Hendrix, Musician
"If I'm free, it's because I'm always running"
Jimi Hendrix, Musician
"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters"
George Savile, Politician
"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free"
Marcus Garvey, Publisher
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