I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.
Daniel WebsterTag: politics freedom government
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
James BovardTag: freedom democracy government misattributed-ben-franklin paraphrase-gary-strand
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.
Jim MorrisonTag: individuality inspirational truth freedom revolution personality mask
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam ChomskyTag: freedom belief expression believe despise freedom-of-expression
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoléon BonaparteExperience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]
Tag: liberty freedom government civil-rights privacy encroachment policy
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Thomas PaineTag: liberty blessings freedom
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
Jean-Paul SartreTag: freedom
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick HenryTag: liberty freedom revolution slavery
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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