Best freedom & protection Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies”

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Author:Edmund Randolph

“Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness.”

Life Children Real Community Freedom Attitude Stronger Spread Protection Real Life Life Experience Fairness Marriage Equality Real Life Experiences

Author:Ken Mehlman

“The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.”

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.”

Ifs Mean Dream Freedom Greater Car Television Ideals Aim Protection

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.”

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Author:Peter Kropotkin

“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations

“He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.”

Freedom Accepting Democracy Protect Protection Obedience

Book:Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson

Source: Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature, and Empire in the Age of Johnson

“The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.”

Source: Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

“Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.”

“Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.”

May Mean America Freedom Liberty Terrorism Protection Civil Liberties Escalating

Author:William Cohen

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