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“If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.”

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Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.”

People Want Littles Has Beens Freedom Liberty Taste Deprived

Book:A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan

Source: A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan

“Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters.”

“Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.”

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Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...”

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Author:David Foster

“If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line which should be drawn between voluntary action and governmental compulsion in a democracy, and of what can be accomplished within the stern laws of economics, we will enable them to retain their freedom, and at the same time, make them worthy to be free.”

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Author:Winthrop W. Aldrich

“I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.”

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Author:Boris Pasternak

“What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.”

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Author:Paul Robeson

“Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.”

“Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.”

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Author:Barry Goldwater

“The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.”

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Author:Ashly Lorenzana

“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.”

“The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.”

People World Ends Whole Goal Freedom Elites Bankers

Author:Aaron Russo

“Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.”

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Author:Diane Nash

“Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.”

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Author:Oscar Arias