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#1

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: freedom-of-choice, government, inspirational, political-philosophy, politics

1133 likes

#2

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: leadership

837 likes

#3

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: freedom, inspirational, personal-freedom

870 likes

#4

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12721 likes

#5

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

3385 likes

#6

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost

tags: boldness, courage, freedom

2641 likes

#7

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: equity, justice, laws

1370 likes

#8

“It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”
― Voltaire, Zadig et autres contes

tags: condemnation, guilt, innocence, judgment, justice, mercy, reasonable-doubt, verdict

779 likes

#9

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

tags: acquiescence, activism, free-speech, justice, principles, protest

605 likes

#10

“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
― Confucius, The Analects

tags: disgrace, honor, justice, society, wealth

407 likes

#11

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war

4084 likes

#12

“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
― Howard Zinn

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, democracy, dissent, law, protest, truth-telling

539 likes

#13

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”
― Honore de Balzac

tags: government, injustice, law

448 likes

#14

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

tags: commonwealth, corruption, government, law

411 likes

#15

“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.

But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
― John Adams, The Portable John Adams

tags: common-law, innocence, judicial, justice, law

285 likes

#16

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics

1903 likes

#17

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule

1506 likes

#18

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow

895 likes

#19

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
― Gerald R. Ford

738 likes

#20

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: government

674 likes

#21

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: general-welfare, government

612 likes

#22

“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: government, political-philosophy, politics, scope-of-government

519 likes

#23

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
― Euripides, Orestes

tags: administration, deceit, deception, elections, evil, false-promises, falsehood, government, power, seduction, tyranny

597 likes

#24

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series

476 likes

#25

“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: civil-rights, government, organized-religion, religion, separation-of-church-and-state

416 likes

#26

“The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

tags: government, patriotism, politics

349 likes

#27

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: constitution, education, government, liberty, politics

320 likes

#28

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
― Frederic Bastiat

tags: bastiat, france, government, history, liberal, libertarian, philosophy

320 likes

#29

“The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: government

281 likes

#30

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”
― César Chávez

tags: despair, endurance, fortitude, strength, will

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