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"Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves"
Simon Bolivar, Leader
"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"Every law is an infraction of liberty"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends"
Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments"
George Washington, President
"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots"
Erich Fromm, Psychologist
"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness"
Niels Bohr, Physicist
"These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people"
Max Cannon, Artist
"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect"
James Madison, President
"Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical"
Jim Morrison, Musician
"If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem"
Milton Friedman, Economist
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom"
Clarence Darrow, Lawyer
"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity"
Herbert Hoover, President
"The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes"
Benazir Bhutto, Leader
"It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails"
Benazir Bhutto, Leader
"Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
"Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business"
Paul Valery, Poet
"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs"
Epicurus, Philosopher
"The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us"
Mario Cuomo, Politician
"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government"
Edward Abbey, Author
"We love your adherence to democratic principles"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
"Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime"
Mel Martinez, Politician
"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor"
James Russell Lowell, Poet
"We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money"
Woody Hayes, Coach
"You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution"
Huey Newton, Activist
"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress"
Marcel Proust, Author
"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants"
Marquis de Sade, Novelist
"I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements"
Zola Budd, Athlete
"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave"
Karl Kraus, Writer
"When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out"
Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary
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