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Jan 20, 2009 4:50 PM CST Freedom
BarrenPneuma
BarrenPneumaBarrenPneumaGolden Staircase, Ontario Canada87 Threads 3 Polls 1,561 Posts
Freedom

No Democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minors.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.
~ Walter Lippmann

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
~ Thomas Jefferson

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
~ John Locke

The moments of freedom, they can’t be given to you. You have to take them.
~ Robert Frost

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
~ Albert Camus

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what book he may read or what films he may watch.
~ Justice Thurgood Marshall

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I’m damned if it belongs to the government.
~ Arthur Hoppe

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
~ William James

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
~ John K. Galbraith

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
~ Henry Kissinger

The art of power and its minions is the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
~ Henry Clay

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
~ George Eliot

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.
~ Don Herald

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
~ Mark Twain

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
~ Thomas Paine

Distrust in men in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

What I’d like to see the police do is deal with important issues and not these sorts of victimless crimes when society is riddled with problems.
~ Alderman Rodney Barker

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
~ Bertrand Russell

Moral indignation: jealousy with a halo.
~ H. G. Wells

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.
~ Joshua Liebman

The most efficacious method of dealing with deviancy is to ignore, to the furthest point of our tolerance, those items which we find offensive.
~ Gilbert Geis

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
~ John F. Kennedy

Many politicians are in the habit of laying down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. This maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

Idiot, n . A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
~ Ambrose Bierce


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Jan 20, 2009 4:51 PM CST Freedom
BarrenPneuma
BarrenPneumaBarrenPneumaGolden Staircase, Ontario Canada87 Threads 3 Polls 1,561 Posts
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgements.
~ Alan Watts
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Jan 20, 2009 5:03 PM CST Freedom
Tater
TaterTaterspringfield, Illinois USA45 Threads 3 Polls 3,326 Posts
Freedom



If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what book he may read or what films he may watch.
~ Justice Thurgood Marshall

Nice post!thumbs up

But unfortunitely I beleive what made this a great democracy, is eroding as each year passes, and the government is becoming mor and more intrusive into people's private lives.. before too long mock my words, this Country will be a socialist, dictatorship... they are constantly imposing new restrictions on our freedoms, but do it little by little so it is not that obvious to those who really don't pay attention..... which is most people....JMO...
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Jan 20, 2009 5:12 PM CST Freedom
druidess6308
druidess6308druidess6308Aliquippa, Pennsylvania USA79 Threads 13,695 Posts
Freedom is never free.


The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. ~Benjamin Franklin

Great subject! Lots of quotes about it, my friend. wine
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Jan 20, 2009 6:18 PM CST Freedom
Tater
TaterTaterspringfield, Illinois USA45 Threads 3 Polls 3,326 Posts
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Jan 26, 2009 6:11 AM CST Freedom
JoAnn62
JoAnn62JoAnn62Singapore, Central Singapore Singapore4 Threads 128 Posts
I loved both posts. Nicely pulled together.
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Jan 26, 2009 6:14 AM CST Freedom
First Amendment means nothing without the Second Amendment!
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