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"Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war"
Philip Roth, Novelist
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments"
Ludwig von Mises, Economist
"In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do"
Hugo Black, Judge
"The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism"
Taslima Nasrin, Writer
"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants' dream of"
Bill Moyers, Journalist
"There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta, completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence"
Mark Shields, Journalist
"Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations"
Natan Sharansky, Writer
"The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants"
Lyn Nofziger
"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless"
Lech Walesa, Activist
"No one nor anything can silence me"
Dmitri Mendeleev, Scientist
"As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream"
Steve Forbes, Businessman
"Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East"
Jack Schwartz, Scientist
"Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness"
Fred Woodworth
"Freedom of speech is always under attack by fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet
"Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary"
Friedrich Ebert, Politician
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves"
Claud-Adrian Helvetius, Philosopher
"Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving"
Lee H. Hamilton, Politician
"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it"
Maxwell Anderson, Playwright
"I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse"
Valentino Rossi, Athlete
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world"
Abraham Lincoln, President
"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"I believe in only one thing: liberty, but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"The government is us; we are the government, you and I"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom"
Robert Frost, Poet
"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
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