“To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.” MenSoulBodyLife IsPeaceNaturalLibertyOrdinaryDenyStarvingStarvationDwellersAmenities Book:Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi
“From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.” WorldWayHas BeensWarNationsCommonBehindsLibertyHeroCitizensOrdinaryTraditionFolksDefenseStoresTyrannyRevolutionaryWar Of The WorldsCivil WarClassroomBattlefieldsRevolutionary WarOrdinary Citizens Author:Alan Keyes
“Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.” LittlesEnoughFatherLeftEasyLibertySecurityOrdinaryRemainsBetrayedArbitraryEver AfterDungeonsExpired Author:Frances Osborne
“The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists. It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his government.” HeartGovernmentLyingIndividualLibertyCitizensWeaponsOrdinaryUnderstoodFellowsExtraordinaryEnglishmenControversialSecond AmendmentSecuredOrdinary CitizensColonists Book:To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right Source: To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right
“Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.” PeopleHeartChildrenHas BeensProblemSchoolLastsPassionJusticeForgetCommonLibertyGoneTroubleHonestTomorrowSpeechNewsOrdinaryComplexesLegsPreservesEggsPoetry IsClingingBad NewsOutspokenCadenceOpaqueFryingTruth And JusticeCommon LifeHashBuoys Author:Garrison Keillor
“The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.” PeopleShouldCountryHardStatesRealityIndividualEasyInterestLibertyPrinciplesDemocracyRightsOrdinaryPressesPrioritiesFree MarketOrdinary PeopleCivil LibertiesBasic PrinciplesFree Press Author:Vladimir Putin