“While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.” RealCareNationsLinesLibertyIssuesMonthsDemocratDetailsReformHealth CareAmerican LibertyHealth Care Reform Author:Thomas Frank
“Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their role is to protect our liberty. By using the absolute power of freedom to accomplish reforms of democracy, we have undermined democracy and diminished our freedom.” LanguageLibertyRolesDemocracyRightsProtectAbsolutesAccomplishCompromiseReformAbsolute Power Book:The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America Source: The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
“I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform... when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.” NeedsPoliticalCausesResultsViewsLibertyProjectsPracticalsCeaseReformPerceiveAdoptionParliamentFundingParliamentary Author:William Cobbett
“The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.” IfsStatesUseGovernmentLawGrowthCan DoAbilitySecretLibertyTechnologyNovelClearGenerationsSecurityRegretUniqueCourtTreasureReformCombinationDigitalInterpretationPlusUnusualExpandingExclusiveSurveillanceOur GenerationDigital TechnologySurveillance StateSecurity And Liberty Author:Ron Wyden
“So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.” IfsWantCountryIndividualNationsLibertyFailingStrangeSucceedCapitalismFoundationMissionsReformBarackReconstructionIndividual Liberty Author:Rush Limbaugh