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“There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.”

Humans Causes Liberty Leader Rights Gains Standing Conviction Annoying Patents Capital Gains

Author:Thomas Frank

“A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.”

People Should May Eye Liberty Dangerous Standing Army Jealous

Author:Samuel Adams

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.”

Ifs Education Liberty Standing Army Raises Wages Sergeants

Author:Edward Everett

“It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.”

People Causes Liberty Vision Standing Triumph Rising Transforming Obscurity Vigorous Sustaining Elevating

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

“If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.”

Ifs Liberty Proud Bird Standing Constitution

Author:Ted Cruz

“A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.”

Government Sex Voice Liberty Color Standing Vote Firm Hinder Stand Firm

Author:Frederick Douglass

“If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.”

Ifs Knows Giving Feels Persons Real Character Certain Liberty Standing Performances Weight Obligation Real Person Standing There Fictional Character Best Performance

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.”

Men Made Government Common Liberty Subjects Standing Live By Uncertain Arbitrary Another Man Rules To Live By

Author:John Locke

“Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.”

Source: Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws, of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia: With an Appendix to Each Volume, Containing Short Tracts Upon Such Subjects as Appeared Necessary to Form a Connecte

“Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.”

Law Individual Liberty Standing Property Enjoyment Protected

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

“Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping around. It adds an immediacy, where you feel like you are watching something through your own eyes, standing there with them. And that just allows you to take more liberties and have more fun with people's behavior.”

People Feels Kind Eye Fun Liberty Seeing Like You Behavior Standing Cameras Add Standing There Immediacy Whipping

Author:Paul Feig

“In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”

Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention

“It's nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops stroking you. Big business gives you a good stroke. And it's one big, transcontinental, cross-country, red, white and blue stroke job... Do you know what the national emblem for this country ought to be? Forget that bald eagle. The national emblem of this country ought to be Uncle Sam standing naked at attention saluting, and seated on a chair next to him, the Statue of Liberty jerking him off. That would be a good symbol for the United Strokes of America.”

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”

“Every person with a pulse has a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community that is on the front lines fighting against groups like ISIS, both militarily and ideologically, every day, and now on the front line of standing up for civil liberties and civil rights to make America great. [They] are the best insurance for the safety of all Americans.”

Persons America Fighting Community Lines Responsibility Liberty Rights Groups Fronts Standing Safety Civil Rights Solidarity Isis Pulse Civil Liberties Muslim Community

Author:Van Jones