“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.”
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“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
“I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.”
“Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.”
“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
“I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.”
“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”
“The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
“I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.”
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
“I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.”
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.”
“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.”
“If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.”
“There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.”
“I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.”
“If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.”
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.”
“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
“The fight for freedom must go on until it is won until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.”
“Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.”