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Freedom Quotes by George Washington
- Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of…
- My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners…
- The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now…
- For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can…
- I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of…
- Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
- Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
- Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of…
- Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught…
- I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield…
- If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
- Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
- As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are…
- Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth
- A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
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- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
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