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“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”

“It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”

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Author:Samuel Adams

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”

“A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.”

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Book:No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

Source: No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

“The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.”

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Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.”

“America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.”

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Author:John Lindsay

“I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.”

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Author:Hamilton Wright Mabie

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.”

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Author:James H. Cone

“The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.”