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Liberty And Freedom Quotes




The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)


We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr (1841-1935)


If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Eric Arthur Blair, pen name George Orwell (1903-1950)


The price of freedom may be high, but never so costly as the loss of freedom.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)


The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning
but without understanding.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941)


The loss of freedom seldom happens overnight...Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with
toothbrush moustache and swastika armband. It creeps up insidiously; step by step; and all of a
sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone.
Baron Lane (1918-2005)


The purpose of freedom of speech -- especially in a properly protected political debate -- is to allow a verbal
outlet in the marketplace of ideas, and to thereby avoid conflict and violence.
Becky Hawkins


I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
Jean Jaqueas Rousseau (1712 -1778)


Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)


The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus (1913-1960)


Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)


Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)


If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington (1732-1799)


They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)


It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Emiliano Zappata (1879-1919)


God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster (1782-1852)


The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is
at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
John Philpot Curran (1750-1817).


He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemies from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)


Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
Benjamin Cardozo (1870-1938)


No man survives when freedom fails, The best men rot in filthy jails, And those who cry 'appease, appease' Are hanged by those they tried to please.
Hiram Mann


The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
Charles-Louis De Secondat (1689-1755)


Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom
of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)


True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)


If I am to be hedged in on every side, to be fretted by the perpetual presence of arbitrary will, to be denied the exercise of my powers, it matters nothing to me whether the chain is laid on me by one or many, by king or people. A despot is not more tolerable for his many heads.
William E. Channing (1780-1842)


It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)


Man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)


The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus (AD 56-AD117)


When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)


Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)


My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)


A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights that God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins!
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)


A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC)


Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'official truth'. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as 'functionaires', functionaries, not journalists.
John Pilger, Australian journalist


It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.
John Pilger, Australian journalist


There are two histories: official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)


Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.
Edward Bernays (1891-1995)


Official truths are often powerful illusions.
John Pilger, Journalist


The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
Justice Hugo L. Black


Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)


One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
Lyn Nofziger (1924-2006)


Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)


Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)


To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man’s nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)


Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett (1794-1865)


According to Gestapo records…they had little need to engage in direct spying on the citizens since the citizens themselves were more than willing to do their spying for them.
Kort E. Patterson


Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)


Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independant and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.
William E. Borah (1865-1940)


The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)


We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)


If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America -- even those designated as 'unlawful enemy combatants.' If you make this exception the whole Constitution crumbles.
Alberto J. Mora, former Navy General Counsel


Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.
Giacomo Matteotti (1885-1924)


A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)


There hasn't been peace on earth because people cant seem to figure out that the real enemy is the people manipulating world events from behind the scenes for their own selfish interests.
James Dye


People don't start wars, governments do.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)


We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.
Walter Cronkite ( 1916-2009)


Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us, blinds us to its great power to harm us.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)


Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)


When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)


Government is not a solution to our problem; government is the problem.
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)


I hereby certify that I do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force as a means of achieving political or
social goals.
The Libertarian Party of the United States


How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)


Democracy lies in the public knowing the state's doings.
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WHY IS GOD ALLOWING IT ALL?

God has always existed (something that’s hard for fallen, mortal humans to fully grasp).

Heaven is God's headquarters from where He rules and runs the universe (this world and the other worlds that He has created that aren’t fallen like our one).

One of His subjects, Lucifer, a very privileged angel (head of all the other angels), became jealous of Him, wanting to be equal with Him, and such ending in open rebellion (all why Lucifer is now referred to as Satan, the devil, the serpent or roaring lion).

Satan and a third of Heaven's angels who were duped by him, and who thus sided with him, were removed from Heaven.

Satan thus being the origin of sin, evil, suffering, cruelty, oppression, tyranny and wicked fellow angels — spirit beings — who're responsible for the occult and the likes of certain magic, mysterious apparitions, and psychic mediums through which they often work and continue to fool (the Bible telling us that the dead no nothing).

Ever since Satan's removal from Heaven, he has not only sought to make God look really bad, and to undermine the truth of His Word (the Christian Bible), particularly via Darwin’s theory of evolution, but has also sought our personal downfall (even destruction), and total control over planet Earth and humanity.

Hence Adam and Eve’s fall.
From this moment on, sin entered this planet like an infectious disease, not only corrupting humans but causing the gradual decaying of our world.
Hence why there are two forces at work in our world now, good (God, love, rightdoing) and evil (Satan, hate, wrongdoing).

As far as total control over planet Earth and humanity goes, and despite trying via previous powers that sought world domination (including a Church and State one, all biblically predicted), Satan hasn’t succeeded yet, but the Christian Bible warns that he soon will via a coming global persecuting power that will deceive most via its clever spiel, cunning, signs and wonders. A power that eventually demands worship. One that we’re told is a copy of that previous Church and State power (that was wounded but revives, Rev 13:3) and that eventually fulfills what that past power sought to do. And this why God will never support any attempt to install such a government, and why His Word speaks ill of it.


"We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one-world leader."
Robert Muller, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations


Because God has given us the freedom and liberty to choose between Him and Satan, good and evil, the right path or wrong path (God not wanting robots), He has to wait until that time when Satan will succeed in gaining total control of Earth.

This way the inhabitants of Earth, Heaven, and other created worlds will finally see Satan’s true heart and long term intentions — in other words, where such a heart and rebellion leads to. And this way there will never be another murmur against God (who thinks in terms of eternity), Satan’s accusations having been proven groundless, and thus no one will want to follow in the likes of Satan’s selfish, destructive footsteps again (given that God hasn’t made us robots, and that nor will we become such).

Meantime, God aches for an end to it all and promises that one day it will end.

He being the very same God who gave us a way out via Calvary (the setting up of His rescue mission), and the same God who secured the permanency of our race via a boat [an ark] when He could’ve destroyed everyone via the global flood, or let them destroy themselves, which they would’ve given that there was only one family still living righteously, and thus they the occupants of that boat.

The Bible tells us that just prior to Christ’s return (when He comes to get the repentant), most humans will have got to that same sad state that existed in Noah’s time and that brought about the global flood.
That cataclysmic disruption to our planet has resulted in massive scars like the Grand Canyon, fish fossils at the top of mountain ranges, volcanoes, fault lines and consequent earthquakes.
The Bible also tells us that just prior to Christ’s return (and due to planet Earth’s decay and so on) there will be an increase in seismic activity, pestilences, pandemics and calamities. These, it says, are the beginning of sorrows.

God has always had our best intentions at heart because He’s the God of love and truth. A God that Satan has always sought to misrepresent given that he has always been jealous of the glory and honour that God alone is due. And given that Satan is no doubt angry over his loss of Heaven and his fate to come, and why he'll take as many with him as he can, and, by the way, why he's behind all the mayhem and trickery, one way or another, and often in order to bring about his End-time plans.

If God wasn’t slowly removing His restraining hand (man’s cup of iniquity full), many wouldn’t awaken from their folly and peril, realise what’s going on, and thus would be lost for all eternity.


"Then I [the apostle John] saw another beast [power] coming out of the earth [a new land]. He had two horns like a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon [changes character]. He exercised all the authority of the first beast [a past persecuting power] on his behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast [fulfills the past
power's historic evil intentions], whose wound had been healed [it reviving from its previous historic fall]"
(Rev 13:11,12, NIV).

"He [the coming global government] was granted power to give breath to the image [copy] of the beast [the first beast], that the image [copy] of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image [copy] of the beast to be killed [here it's referring to dissenters, those who won't bow to certain demands]" (Rev 13:15, NKJV).

“Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, ‘If anyone worships the beast and his image [copy], and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God…’ ”
(Rev 14:9,10, NKJV).


This article was added to on 11 September 2020.

This article also appears in a few other places on my website.