 |  233998 | Feb 14, 2005 10:06am | The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
-Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) |
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| | | livingontheedge | Sep 16, 2005 11:00am | | "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."--John F. Kennedy, White House speech, 1962 |
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Sponsor |  Dr-Duke | Nov 15, 2005 4:01pm | If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
- James Madison |
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|  PoisonPen | Dec 21, 2005 11:31am | "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." -- Thomas Paine
"When people fear the government, there is tyranny. When government fears the people, there is liberty." -- Thomas Paine
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force." -- George Washington
"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." -- Thomas Jefferson |
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|  pfg23 | Feb 9, 2006 10:30pm | (Paraphrasing, but it's close)
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."--Benjamin Franklin |
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| | ginajudd | Aug 22, 2006 2:41pm | | "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."--Thomas Jefferson |
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|  StSheol | Feb 11, 2007 11:58pm | | "Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty." - Samuel Adams |
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| | caravia | Feb 16, 2007 7:36am | Byh the way, where are our founding mothers? I found today a great archive with the lives and works of Louise Michel, Emma Goldman and many others.
Ana, an Anarchist with fathers and mothers :) |
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| | | IcyKold1 | Apr 1, 2007 5:30pm | John Adams "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. ~Simone Weil
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. ~Thomas Jefferson
Just a few of my favorites. |
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