Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
Category: liberty
Prison or liberty
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.
Law and freedom
Where there is no law there is no freedom.
Slavery for the masses
Few men desire liberty, for it requires personal responsibility. The majority are satisfied with a just master.
Fight for your freedom
There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.
Value your freedoms
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
A time for choosing
I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used, “We’ve never had it so good.”
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My freedom does not end where your fear begins.
What is this liberty?
And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties — liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, of labor, of trade?
Trading down
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.