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"We're not a democracy"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world"
Earl Warren, Judge
"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation"
Earl Warren, Judge
"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves"
Bernard Baruch, Businessman
"If you are living out of a sense of obligation, you are slave"
Wayne Dyer, Psychologist
"Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana"
Phil Donahue, Entertainer
"Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing"
Phil Donahue, Entertainer
"The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
"True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price"
Bryant H. McGill, Author
"Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent"
Bryant H. McGill, Author
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people"
James A. Garfield, President
"Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around"
Ralph Abernathy, Activist
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people"
James A. Garfield, President
"No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"All socialism involves slavery"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"Throughout the day, no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever!"
Davy Crockett, Explorer
"Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them"
Davy Crockett, Explorer
"Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld"
Craig Bruce, Writer
"The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all"
Arundhati Roy, Novelist
"To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery"
Richard Hooker, Priest
"In these times, we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortress"
Heinrich Heine, Poet
"There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint"
George Mason, Statesman
"Slavery discourages arts and manufactures"
George Mason, Statesman
"None who have always been free can understand the terrible, fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down"
Huey Newton, Activist
"There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people"
Huey Newton, Activist
"A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink, and wear"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds"
Pearl S. Buck, Novelist
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny"
Huey Newton, Activist
"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price"
John Le Carre, Author
"You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces, because freedom is all or nothing"
Tertullian, Author
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