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President's Day - February 15, 2010
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Freedom Quotes
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks.
Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again,
poor fools.
And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
- D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
If a nation values anything more than freedom,
it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more,
it will lose that too.
- Somerset Maugham
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected,
and handed on for them to do the same.
- Ronald Reagan
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive
unless it is based on moral foundations.
You can get the economics right, but in addition
liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.
- Margaret Thatcher, All Beginnings are Hopeful: Challenges Facing the 21st Century
We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long
that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting
how much blood it cost
to establish the Bill of Rights.
- Felix Frankfurter
Liberty has never come from the government.
Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
- Woodrow Wilson
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first,
the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Find out just what the people will submit to
and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong
which will be imposed upon them;
and these will continue until they are resisted
with either words or blows, or with both.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by
the endurance of those whom they oppress.
- Frederick Douglass
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk.
Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. - Winston Churchill
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement
of the
freedom of the people
by gradual and silent encroachments of those in
power
than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty
of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments,
but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
- John P. Zenger
I do think that our freedoms are at risk.
- Clarence Thomas
It is a central teaching of the American experiment that liberty depends, in a very direct way, on individual virtue.
- Dan Coats, U.S. Senator - America's Youth: A Crisis of Character
O Liberty...! is it well
To leave the gates unguarded?
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
- Bertrand de Jouvenel
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else,
that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
- Bertrand Russell
A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits
of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
The people never give up their liberties
but under some delusion.
- Edmund Burke
Men fight for freedom,
then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
- Author Unknown
A discriminating irreverence
is the creator and protector of human liberty.
- Mark Twain
I had reasoned this out in my mind,
there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death;
if I could not have one, I would have the other.
- Harriet Tubman (~1820-1913)
I had crossed the line. I was free;
but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom.
I was a stranger in a strange land.
- Harriet Tubman (~1820-1913)
the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom
to those who are not free.
- Pearl S. Buck
It is easy to take liberty for granted,
when you have never had it taken from you.
- Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
- William Cowper
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased
at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course others may take,
but as for me,
give me liberty, or give me death!
- Patrick Henry
There
are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
- Charles Kingsley
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
- Jim Morrison
Most people do not really want freedom,
because freedom involves
responsibility,
and most people are frightened of responsibility.
- Sigmund Freud
So when Mr. Gorbachev left to fly home, I went straight to the telephone to ring up President Reagan, to tell him that there was something very unusual beginning to happen in the Soviet Union,
that maybe it was beginning to crack.
- Margaret Thatcher, All Beginnings are Hopeful: Challenges Facing the 21st Century
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds
wake in
the day to find that all was vanity,
but the dreamers of the day are
dangerous men
for they may act their dream with open eyes
and make it
possible.
- T.E. Lawrence
I may not agree with what you say,
but to your death I will defend your right to say it.
- Voltaire
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- George Washington