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Freedom, Knowledge and Truth Quotations A collection of quotations from historical figures, thinkers, authors, film, fiction and more on the subjects of freedom, knowledge and truth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When all government, domestic and foreign, in little
as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all
power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government
on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from
which we separated." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The strongest reason for people to retain the right
to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against
tyranny in government." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are
neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things
worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather
to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked
with greater confidence than an armed man." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much
liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Do not bite the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook
beneath it." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if
there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of
blindfolded fear." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have
removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people
that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated
but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that
God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national
morality can prevail in the exclusion of religious principle." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans
are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they
can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged
and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from
which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions
will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel
and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or
the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer
or die. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue
it steadily. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter
which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can
invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use; the freedom
of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep
to the slaughter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this
truth - that God governs in the affairs of men...We have been assured,
Sir, in the sacred writings , that "except the Lord build this house
they labour in vain that build it." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We have staked the future of all of our political institutions
upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of
each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain
ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great
nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions,
but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other
faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity and freedom to worship here."
------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his
government." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people,
who have... a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine
right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters
and conduct of their rulers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which
can ever preserve the liberties of any people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your
liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These,
as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery
and cowardice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as
sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public
justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched
out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely
overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common
enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once
they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties
to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge
are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will
be their great security. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress
to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience;
or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens,
from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary
for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them;
or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly
manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject
the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers
or possessions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the
right of private judgment in matters of conscience, direct their course
to this happy country as their last asylum. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution,
are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them
against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from
our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger
and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care
and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present
generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested
from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by
the artifices of false and designing men. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Providence has given our people the choice of their rulers, and
it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian
nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Until they become conscious they will never rebel,
and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Ridicule is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then
it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as self-evident.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the
time he will pick himself up and continue on.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “There are none so enslaved as those who falsely believe they are
free.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “History is the lie commonly agreed upon.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run
over if you just sit there.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Wisdom is knowing how little we know.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Great spirits have always experienced violent opposition from
mediocre minds.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “In war, the truth must be guarded by a bodyguard of lies.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It can’t happen here” is number one on the list of
famous last words.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe
it.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this
very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn
on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to
church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled
over your eyes to blind you from the truth.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We are not humans on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings
on a human journey.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly
disguised as impossible situations.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The Matrix is a system, Neo, and that system is our enemy. When
you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers,
lawyers, carpenters, the very minds of the people we are trying to save.
But until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them
our enemies. You have to understand most of these people are not ready
to be unplugged. And many are so hopelessly dependent on the system that
they will fight to protect it.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Democracy - two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “…liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims
at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Conditioning will save them from the great anxiety and terrible
agony they endure at present in making a free decision for themselves” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “…I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry,
I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “…the greater part of the population is not very intelligent,
dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what
to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts
and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “People are finding that, because of the way the machines are changing
the world, more and more of their old values don’t apply anymore.
People have no choice but to become second-rate machines themselves, or
wards of machines” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed. That wherever any
Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right
of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government…” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested
in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or
luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power… The object
of power is power … The world that we are preparing is a world of
victory after victory, triumph after triumph: an endless pressing, pressing,
pressing upon the nerve of power.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the
constitution says, but everyone made equal…what do we want in this
country above all? People want to be happy right? Well aren'’ they?
Don'’ we keep them moving, don'’ we give them fun?"” ------------------------------------------------------------------------- “By heeding the artist, man can arouse himself from his present
waking sleep and anticipate the inevitable changes which destiny brings
and so pass consciously, confidently and relatively unscathed into the
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