“The (Supreme Court) ruling that anyone who's arrested -- even accidentally -- can be strip-searched was decided five to four, with the votes for the searches coming from the Court's five conservatives. You know -- the 'defending personal liberty' guys. Which is weird because I'm not a constitutional scholar, but I'm willing to bet Big Government feels it's biggest when it's inside your anus.” KnowsFeelsBigsGovernmentGuyLibertyFiveFourWillingDecidedVoteCourtSupremeScholarSupreme CourtRulingArrestedBig GovernmentPersonal LibertyAnus Author:Jon Stewart
“We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.” MenDoeMy OwnLibertyParticularWillingDependsCircumstancesCommitmentAimSakeDefinitionsObliged Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer of his hire. There is another: to instill in him paltry desires so compulsive that he is willing to sell his liberty and his honor to satisfy them. We are all guilty of concupiscence, but newspapers, radios, television, and battalions of advertising men (woe to that generation!) deliberately stimulate our desires, the satisfaction of which so often means the degradation of the family.” MenMeanDesireHeavenSinPoorLibertyGenerationsCryTelevisionWillingHonorSellsRadioSatisfactionNewspapersAdvertisingGuiltyConsumerismWoeDegradationOverconsumptionInstillLaborersDeadly Sins Author:Dorothy Day
“Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved our soldiers... every man that wanted to burn the negro, every one that wanted to scatter yellow fever in the North, every man that opposed human liberty, that regarded the auction-block as an altar and the howling of the bloodhound as the music of the Union, every man who wept over the corpse of slavery, that thought lashes on the naked back were a legal tender for labour performed, every one willing to rob a mother of her child - every solitary one was a Democrat.” MenHumansChildrenWarGovernmentWantedMotherHeavenLibertyHistoryWillingHolyShotsSlaveryUnionsDemocratSoldierEvery ManNakedBlockCivil WarLabourYellowFlagsSolitaryCorpsesAltarsFeverAmerican Civil WarLashesAuctionsYellow FeverBloodhounds Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.” LibertySecurityWillingForfeit Author:Benjamin Franklin
“Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.” GivingLibertySecurityWillingGiving UpDeserve Author:Benjamin Franklin
“It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who operates in the political arena wants to see their morals reflected in our laws and governmental institutions - including the National Organization of Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the American Civil Liberties Union, whether or not they are willing to admit it.” WantSaidActionChristianLawPoliticalForceReligiousTalkingLibertyMoralRightsWillingOrganizationInstitutionsUnionsIncludingLeagueAbortionArenaCivil LibertiesAbortion Rights Author:Don Feder
“Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.” PeopleIfsShouldMayLongWarStatesFactsCareLastsLibertyAcceptingPowerEconomyAliveEffectsWillingConsequenceEconomicsArgumentBasesConstitutionPropertyDebtRelatePermanentEngagement Author:Robert H. Jackson
“Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.” WayDoeIdeasWishCausesLibertyWillingExpressionIndifferenceFree WillFacultyVoidWish YouUnworthyChimeraScholastics Author:Voltaire
“In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.” PeopleLibertySacrificeSecurityWillingWartime Author:Ron Paul
“The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally sound as the Golden Rule. It is the way of willing exchange, of common consent, of self-responsibility, of open opportunity. It respects the right of each to the product of his labor. It limits the police force to keeping the peace. It is the way of the free market, private property, limited government. On its banner is emblazoned Individual Liberty.” WayHumansSelfGovernmentOpportunityIndividualForceWishSoundCommonResponsibilityLibertyWillingProductsLimitsLaborPolicePropertyGoldenConsentRight WayFree MarketPrivate PropertyLimited GovernmentGolden RuleBannerIndividual LibertyPolice ForceSelf Responsibility Author:Leonard Read
“A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.” WantGovernmentLibertyWillingPoliticianProgramCaringLibertarianSensitiveFreedom And LibertyFreedom LibertyCharitableGovernment Programs Book:The Enemies List Source: The Enemies List
“When you have war, whether it's a war against drugs, war against terrorism, war overseas, the mentality of the people change and they're more willing to sacrifice their liberties in order to be safe and secure.” PeopleWarOrderLibertySacrificeWillingDrugSafeTerrorismSecureMentalityWar On Drugs Author:Ron Paul
“Allegiance to Jesus and loving the truth are primary truths (2Thessalonians 2 v10). The Body of Christ must tolerate all religions in the sense of greatly valuing the dignity of their people and religious liberties. They possess great dignity before God. Yet, we are not willing to let them go to hell by refusing to love them and tell them the truth about Jesus. A false application of tolerance is foundational in the movements that lead to the harlot religion.” PeopleBodyJesusChristReligiousLibertyHellMovementWillingDignityTolerancePrimariesApplicationTolerateAllegianceGo To HellReligious LibertyBody Of ChristHarlots Author:Mike Bickle
“What we face is a scared populace, and because it's scared, it's willing to put up with what I think are inevitably more moves toward the constriction of civil liberties, mobility within the country, the ability to travel overseas, all of those things we have long taken for granted.” ThinkingLongCountryFacesMovingAbilityLibertyTakenWillingScaredGrantedCivil LibertiesTaken For GrantedMobility Author:Michael Scheuer
“If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.” PeopleIfsTryingInterestActingLibertyWillingBalanceModelsTraditionMethodWesternContraryAlternativesExtrasWestern Society Author:Edward Snowden
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” RealityMotivationalLawPoliticalOrderIndividualCommunityLibertyAcceptingBreakAcceptanceWillingKingsHighestRespectConscienceInjusticeLibertarianActivismAfrican AmericanProtestPenaltiesUnjustDissentDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceImprisonmentPeace And JusticeIndividual RightsPeace JusticeLibertarian PartyEquality And JusticeLiberty And JusticeDignity And RespectGood KingsJustice And InjusticeUnjust LawsJustice EqualityUnjust War Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” MenMadeImportantWarFightingPoliticsFreedomChanceLibertyMilitaryWillingCreaturesGunSafetySoldierConservativeMiserableCombatFreedom And LibertyFreedom LibertyExertionNo WarBeing FreeBearing ArmsInspirational MilitaryBetter ManCall Of DutyAmerican SoldierEternal VigilanceMilitary HistoryAmerican MilitaryFighting For FreedomPersonal LibertyUs MilitaryUgly ThingsMilitary ManWar VeteranMilitary SoldierSoldiers At WarMilitary OperationsMilitary MemorialHistorical MilitaryUnnecessary WarPersonal SafetySpecial OperationsCombat Veterans Author:John Stuart Mill
“Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.” PeopleEffortLibertyRiskWillingEmbraceChainsProtectiveArmor Book:Chainfire Source: Chainfire