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The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 1In context
- America
The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- America
Every thing that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’Tis time to part.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- America
In America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- America
- Laws
Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her⁠—Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Common Sense (1776), Part 2In context
- America
Human life for us is sacred, but we say if any life is to be sacrificed it shall be ours; we won’t do it ourselves, but we will put the enemy in the position where they will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death.
Emmeline Pankhurst1858–1928Freedom or Death (1913)
- Life & Death
We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties.
Ron Paulborn 1935Speech in the House of Representatives, September 17, 1997
- Government
- Liberty
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt the Younger1759–1806Speech in the House of Commons (18 November 1783)
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
Karl Popper1902–1994The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), Vol. 2, Ch. 21 “An Evaluation of the Prophecy”
We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
Karl Popper1902–1994The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), Vol. 1, Notes to the Chapters: Ch. 7, Note 4
- Politics
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
Karl Popper1902–1994On Freedom (1958)
The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek.
Karl Popper1902–1994The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), Vol. 1, Notes to the Chapters: Ch. 7, Note 4
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
Terry Pratchett1948–2015Wyrd Sisters (1988)
- Work
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
Ayn Rand1905–1982Anthem (1937)
The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.
John Rawls1921–2002A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter IV, Section 33, p. 210
- Liberty