The more powerful the national government grows, the less free Americans will become.
Category: liberty
A test for freedom
He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.
Free men or drudges?
Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?
From slavery to liberty to slavery in three generations
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.
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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