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“[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them was secure and protected by law . . . implies liberty; because property cannot be secured unless the man be at liberty to acquire, use or part with it, at his discretion, and unless he have his personal liberty of life and limb, motion and rest, for that purpose.”

People Men Use Government Law Purpose Freedom Liberty He Man Property Secure Acquire Republic Protected Limbs Discretion Secured Personal Liberty

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.”

Needs Government Purpose Individual Freedom Society Protect Cards Contradiction Privacy Secrecy Free Society Purpose Of Government

Author:Ron Paul

“I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.”

Purpose Born Freedom Obedience Adore Adoration Being Free Predestination Unfree Born To Be Free

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.”

World Self Action Purpose Justice Freedom Principles Objects Selfish Concerts Peace And Justice Observance

Book:Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

“Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.”

Ends Purpose Interest Freedom Common Mankind Honor Steady

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“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.”

Real Character Use Purpose Freedom Race Knowledge Progress Conditions Intelligent Historical Mastery Historic Real Freedom

Author:Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”

“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.”

World Enough Purpose Challenges Freedom Accepting Acceptance Praying Intellectual Historical Oppressed

Author:James H. Cone

“No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.”

Men World Humans Doe Soul Matter Spirit Purpose Freedom No Matter What Sane

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”

“From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey pioneer courage, loyalty, strength of purpose and freedom." The trumpet motive in the closing Allegro "is a call of defiance to the very elements themselves that had the temerity to dispute the spiritual strength and courage of the golden city of the West."”

“Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should not be hindered and weighed down by a mechanical servility to such rules.”

Should Mind Purpose Artist Freedom Clear Harm Fancy Servility

Author:Federico Zuccari

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

“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.”