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Title: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: libertylover on February 05, 2006, 10:13:34 PM
There are loads of liberty quotes these are my favorites.  I am aware that there are loads of famous liberty quotes go ahead and post your favorite here.


"It is the duty of the patriot to protect
 his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
 will make violent revolution inevitable."  -- John F. Kennedy

Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Cortaigne on February 05, 2006, 10:17:52 PM
"It's action that counts, not words, and we need action now ..." — Loretta/Stan
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: drewflax on February 05, 2006, 10:22:55 PM
"When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny." -- Thomas Paine

Cuts right to the heart of the matter.
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: lepidoptera on February 06, 2006, 12:45:27 AM
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither." -Benjamin Franklin

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -Denis Diderot

Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: bonerjoe on February 06, 2006, 01:21:57 AM
"Anarchists are dumbies." - Teh Joe Boner
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: libertylover on February 06, 2006, 02:17:28 AM
Ha ha not exactly what I was looking for BJ.  I kind of would like quotes of famous people.  Some examples might be, Gandi, Martin Luther King, Malcomn X, Ronald Regan, Mae West, Adam Smith, Adam West, Adam from the book of Genisus, A thru D list Celebraties, and/or any other historical figure.
Pro-freedom quotes are just as good.

  "Let my people go"  - Moses

  "They can have my gun from my cold dead hands" - Charlton Heston

   "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution." - Mae West
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Proletarian on February 06, 2006, 04:40:48 AM
"Fuck the police!"
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: libertylover on February 06, 2006, 04:49:47 AM
"Fuck the police!" - New Orleans Residents
"Fuck the police!" - Rodney King Riot LA
"Fuck the police, you shot me three times M#%#@ Fuck#$!!!" - Guy in CA this past week

Which one or who did you mean to credit?
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: MobileDigit on February 06, 2006, 06:40:32 AM
"Anarchists are dumbies." - Teh Joe Boner
Government
is
Slavery
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Laetitia on February 06, 2006, 08:50:12 AM
Here's an interesting source for a freedom/liberty quote - Franklin D. Roosevelt:

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Laetitia on February 06, 2006, 09:08:03 AM
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.  -D.H. Lawrence

Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it.  -George Bernard Shaw

"It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which no good man will consent to lose but with his life."
-The Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland's reply to Pope John XXII for excommunicating Robert Bruce, 1320 A.D.

Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Driven on February 06, 2006, 10:34:02 AM
"The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside." --Alan Bloom

"First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me." --Paston Martin Neimellor

"I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy ... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything -- you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." --Robert Heinlen

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws." --Ayn Rand

"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." --Alexis de Tocqueville

"... as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ..." --Benjanim Franklin

Yeah. Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up. See this? This is my boomstick! It's a twelve gauge double barreled Remington, S-Mart's top-of-the-line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop Smart. Shop S-mart. Ya got that?! Now I swear, the next one of you primates, even touches me... Ya! (BOOM) (BOOM) --Bruce Campbell as Ash in "Army of Darkness"
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Proletarian on February 06, 2006, 10:46:31 AM
"Fuck the police!" - New Orleans Residents
"Fuck the police!" - Rodney King Riot LA
"Fuck the police, you shot me three times M#%#@ Fuck#$!!!" - Guy in CA this past week

Which one or who did you mean to credit?

I meant "Fuck the police!"
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: bonerjoe on February 06, 2006, 03:21:55 PM
Government
is
Slavery

Anarchy
ist
Suicide
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: atheistshawn on February 06, 2006, 03:24:35 PM


"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -Denis Diderot



This is wonderful!
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Evil Muppet on February 06, 2006, 03:31:40 PM

Yeah. Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up. See this? This is my boomstick! It's a twelve gauge double barreled Remington, S-Mart's top-of-the-line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop Smart. Shop S-mart. Ya got that?! Now I swear, the next one of you primates, even touches me... Ya! (BOOM) (BOOM) --Bruce Campbell as Ash in "Army of Darkness"
I love that movie. 
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Evil Muppet on February 06, 2006, 05:10:41 PM
"I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto,—"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,—"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have."  --Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience. 

"There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself."
--PJ O'Rourke

"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
--Frederic Bastiat

"When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will."
--Frederic Bastiat

"The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a many who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it."
--Adam Smith
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Driven on February 07, 2006, 09:12:48 PM
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: battlesysadmin on February 08, 2006, 01:09:48 AM
This could come right after Joy's D.H. quote:

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. – Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

Let's prove this to be true.
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Stepchild on February 08, 2006, 02:50:56 AM
"Kill Whitey!"
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Post by: hitman47 on February 08, 2006, 06:04:45 AM
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
  --Thomas Jefferson
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Flatty on February 08, 2006, 08:08:12 AM
Sadly, Liberty only exists in ones mind..........(Flatty)
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Longshot7 on February 10, 2006, 12:41:28 PM
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees-Emiliano Zapata Salazar
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: ladyattis on February 10, 2006, 12:54:04 PM
"Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries." -- Ayn Rand

-- Bridget
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: lepidoptera on February 10, 2006, 02:32:20 PM
"Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries." -- Ayn Rand

-- Bridget

Although, China seems to be a counter-example...
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: CDXX on February 10, 2006, 02:51:00 PM
"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, & county commissioners."  — Edward Abbey


“The masters, whether they be priests or kings or capitalists, when they want to exploit you, the first thing they have to do is demoralize you, & they demoralize you very simply by kicking you in the nuts." - Kenneth Rexroth


"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy,  rotten system." — Dorothy Day

Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Driven on February 11, 2006, 11:25:29 PM
"He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave." -- William Drummond
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: pc on February 20, 2006, 06:58:20 PM
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing." -- Thomas Jefferson

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Evil Muppet on February 20, 2006, 07:29:22 PM
While in Iraq someone wrote some quote from Abraham Lincoln on the platoons bulletin board.  I couldn't let that stand so underneath it I wrote

Sic Semper Tyrannus
--John Wilkes Booth.

It ticked some people off but fuck them.
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: Driven on March 14, 2006, 12:34:58 AM
These are my favorite quotes to inspire activism.

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere". -- Thomas Jefferson

"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves". --Winston Churchill

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public". ---Theodore Roosevelt (1918)

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists." --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." -- Daniel Webster (1834)

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress." -- Frederick Douglas
Title: Re: What is your best Liberty Quote?
Post by: CivilianJones on March 16, 2006, 01:14:27 PM
"If liberty is to mean anything, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." -George Orwell

And at lunch some people were talking about how the founding fathers hated the British taxes, and were smugglers to avoid tariffs.  I tackly pointed out "They're not smugglers, they're just free-marketeers!"
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Post by: Swanny on March 27, 2006, 03:55:31 PM
"Get the fuck off of my property!" - Me
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Post by: mikehz on March 30, 2006, 10:32:38 PM
TANSTAAFL:"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch"--Robert Anson Heinlein 
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Post by: Bill Brasky on April 01, 2006, 10:37:12 AM
Its not a liberty quote, but I think it pretty well depicts the current state of affairs in this country.

  The Second Coming -- W. B. Yeats


Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.


Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?