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"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate"
Ulysses S. Grant, President
"You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that"
Patrick McGoohan, Actor
"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands"
Rosa Luxemburg, Activist
"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on"
Robert Benchley, Comedian
"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon, may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country"
Hannah Arendt, Historian
"The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built"
Rosa Luxemburg, Activist
"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him"
Ezra Pound, Poet
"You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonald's, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it"
Charlie Sheen, Actor
"The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that!"
Neil Gaiman, Author
"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech"
Neil Gaiman, Author
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up"
Neil Gaiman, Author
"In the main, it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will"
Alexander Hamilton, Politician
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people"
Daniel Webster, Statesman
"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom"
Quentin Crisp, Writer
"I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act"
Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman
"In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be"
Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian
"The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest"
J. William Fulbright, Politician
"In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root"
Paul Tsongas, Politician
"I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?"
Federico Fellini, Director
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have"
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman
"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own"
Abbie Hoffman, Activist
"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out"
Abbie Hoffman, Activist
"You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement"
Paul Tsongas, Politician
"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed"
Paul Tsongas, Politician
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