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"But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago"
John McCain, Politician
"Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions"
John McCain, Politician
"Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice"
John McCain, Politician
"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more"
John Adams, President
"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... The only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people"
John Adams, President
"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries"
John Adams, President
"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So what we view our role as is giving people that power"
Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman
"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions"
George Will, Journalist
"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it"
George Will, Journalist
"I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms: the people who came before you won with such hard knocks"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others"
Edward Abbey, Author
"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me, poor bleedin' country"
Edward Abbey, Author
"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"No man may make another free"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced, but even more in the new ideas they express"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"When I don't feel free and can't do what I want, I just react. I go against it"
Keanu Reeves, Actor
"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse"
Jules Renard, Dramatist
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
"One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen"
Matt Groening, Cartoonist
"The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War, almost two years later"
Corrine Brown, Politician
"America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people"
Nancy Pelosi, Politician
"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist
"Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life!"
David Hockney, Artist
"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
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