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"I believe that we can build a new country - a country where people are not afraid to speak their minds and where they can live freely and happily"
Volodymyr Zelensky, President
"The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility"
Susan Sontag, Author
"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens, and real diseases are useful material"
Susan Sontag, Author
"We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy"
Dick Cheney, Vice President
"I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom"
Jim Morrison, Musician
"You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake"
Dick Cheney, Vice President
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you"
Dick Cheney, Vice President
"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life"
Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman
"Democracy must learn to defend itself"
Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman
"The Soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy"
Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman
"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own"
E. E. Cummings, Poet
"Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things"
Plautus, Playwright
"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"We must never forget the sacrifices of our ancestors who fought for our freedom, and we must continue to fight to preserve it"
Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President
"Either be wholly slaves or wholly free"
John Dryden, Poet
"The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
"Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny"
William Blackstone, Judge
"The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity"
William Blackstone, Judge
"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten"
Indira Gandhi, Statesman
"To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time"
Neil Young, Musician
"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated"
Neil Young, Musician
"Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
"Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
"The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere"
George Meredith, Novelist
"No emancipation without that of society"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"Freedom is the only law which genius knows"
James Russell Lowell, Poet
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative"
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
"Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up"
John McCain, Politician
"The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them"
John McCain, Politician
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