The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?
Gerry SpenceTags: liberty free-speech
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson MandelaThe fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell’s
1984
and the only difference between our society and those fictionalized by Huxley, Orwell and others, is that the advertising techniques used to package the propaganda are a little more sophisticated on the surface.
Yet just a quick glance behind the curtain reveals that the age old tactics of manipulation of fear and manufactured consensus are still being used to force humanity into accepting the terms of its own imprisonment and in turn policing others within the prison without bars.
Tags: liberty freedom 1984 police-state big-brother despotism homeland-security orwell war-on-terror
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George OrwellTags: liberty freedom-of-speech
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-ActonA Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John AdamsTags: liberty government
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. Aristotle speaks plainly to this purpose, saying, 'that the institution of youth should be accommodated to that form of government under which they live; forasmuch as it makes exceedingly for the preservation of the present government, whatsoever it be.
John AdamsTags: liberty education aristotle
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar. . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
Thomas JeffersonTags: liberty
The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.
Thomas JeffersonTags: liberty
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