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There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The Internet has become the phenomenon of the new century. It has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
We cannot, as a people, remain mute and free.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one — one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals’ rights – which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)