Real poster from London weeks after 7/7
One of the greatest songs of all time. Find the Cost of Freedom.
AMERICANS! THINK AND FIGHT FOR WHAT IS BEING STOLEN FROM YOU!
WAKE UP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE....
Sighs, knowing this is akin to shouting into a wind tunnel.
WAKE UP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE....
Sighs, knowing this is akin to shouting into a wind tunnel.
Above all, we must realize that no
arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will
and moral courage of free men and women. ~ Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural
Address, January 20, 1981.
People never give up their liberties
but under some delusion. ~ Edmund Burke, speech at County Meeting of
Bucks, 1784
For every man who lives without
freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. ~ Lillian Hellman, The Watch on
the Rhine
History does not long entrust the
care of freedom to the weak or the timid. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, inaugural
address, Jan. 20, 1953
Those who deny freedom to others
deserve it not for themselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln, letter to H.L. Pierce,
Apr. 6, 1859
Necessity is the plea for every
infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed
of slaves. ~ William Pitt, speech, Nov. 18, 1783
The worst way to defend our freedom
is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly
during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of
speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to
stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes. ~ Michael Moore, Stupid
White Men
Ignorance may be bliss, but it
certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to
light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the
better for our enfranchisement. ~ Robert Hugh Benson, Intellectual Slavery
Freedom is the basic condition for
you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and
the other person. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
Freedom can be preserved only if it
is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular
advantages. ~ Friedrich Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty
True freedom is always spiritual. It
has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained,
handcuffed, or put into a jail. ~ Osho, Freedom: The Courage to Be Yourself
If a nation values anything more than
freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort
or money that it values more, it will lose that too. ~ W. Somerset Maugham, Strictly
Personal
Individual liberty is individual
power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual
powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion
to its numbers the most powerful nation. ~ John Quincy Adams, letter to James
Lloyd, Oct. 1, 1822
The truth shall make you free. ~ Jesus,
John 8:31
Proving one's freedom will often mean
insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior. ~
Ermanno Bencivenga, Freedom: A Dialogue
It is by the goodness of God that in
our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech,
freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. ~ Mark Twain,
Following The Equator
The free man is he who does not fear
to go to the end of his thought. ~ Leon Blum, quoted in Webster's
Quotations, Facts and Phrases
No man can put a chain about the
ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other fastened about his
own neck. ~ Frederick Douglass, speech, Oct. 1883
Without freedom there can be no
morality. ~ Carl Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
Liberty is not a means to a higher
political end. It is itself the highest political end. ~ John Dalberg-Acton, The
History of Freedom in Antiquity
Man is born free, and everywhere he
is in chains. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
Can this be happiness, this
terrifying freedom? ~ Albert Camus, Caligula
And now, folks, for what is going on today!
Most surrendered their freedom a long time ago. When we succumb to the tyranny of our own passions, it is a given that we will be easily manipulated by the people and situations in our lives. When we cede what little control we have to the lower elements of our own being, the rest is a given, although it does not always play out in as ugly a fashion as it is right now on a worldwide scale.
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