“The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!.” WellsHardGovernmentTodayLyingLibertyTeachOur LivesSecurityLessonsPropertyThreatForgottenWell BeingAncestorRulers Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.” TwoGovernmentDesireLibertyOur LivesRepublicanDemocratLeavingExtremesLibertarianFavorsRejectsTwo ExtremesControl Of Your Life Author:Michael Badnarik
“In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.” IfsWantStillsShowsGovernmentNamesSidesCompanyLibertyStruggleDemocracyOur LivesSecurityJudgingBalanceCitizensAngelSafetyDetailsTerrorismIntimatePrivacyMassiveThreatenedTransparencyCounter Terrorism Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.” DoeLibertyOur LivesSymbolsBellsBerlinPhiladelphiaLiberty Bell Author:Angela Merkel
“I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.” NeedsHumansStillsEarthSpiritJusticeFreedomHuman BeingsLibertyOur LivesMaterialsComfortDemandEvidenceSakeWorthyCollectivesBeing HumanBondageIndivisibleExpediency Author:Han Suyin
“In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.” WorldWayFirstsEndsSeemsOrderChoicesGivenEnjoyForgetLibertyOur LivesAmountValuableSpendingCertaintySettlingObsessedEarningUnlimitedHolding OnQuestionableEarning Money Author:Rolf Potts
“There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.” SoulHandsLawLibertyOur LivesProtectRootsBarbarism Author:Charlie Pierce
“The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.” WayHumansDifferentGovernmentChoicesIndividualLibertyOur LivesThirdsDestinationRoutes Author:Ed Crane
“We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.” WorldHas BeensUseHandsEnergyGivenLibertyOur LivesRiskArmsProtectConsequenceSacredAssumingPropertyPerseveranceCommittedCreatorPreservesDistressHostileCompelledDeposits Book:The Real Thomas Jefferson Source: The Real Thomas Jefferson
“There is no question that if one were to ask whether we Americans are moving towards more liberty or more government control over our lives, the answer would unambiguously be the latter - more government control over our lives. We might have reached a point where the trend is irreversible and that is a true tragedy for if liberty is lost in America, it will be lost for all times and all places.” IfsGovernmentMightAmericaMovingAsksLostAnswersLibertyOur LivesTragedyAll TimeLatterTrendsIrreversible Author:Walter E. Williams
“Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.” LibertyGreaterOur LivesDangerPropertyCongressSession Author:Mark Twain