Quotes About Liberty

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.

A long time ago, I made me a rule. I let people do what they want to do.

Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

Isabella Boyer Singer, the wife with whom Singer had spent most of his final years, in her claim to be the legal widow. Isabella eventually won her case and went on to live a glamorous life in Paris, where she married a duke and became Bartholdi's model for the Statue of Liberty. With

Freedom is the most expensive commodity on earth….

Tear down your border of thicket and vine creating a free world, yours and mine.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

This argument—"We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from our hands,"97—was a politico-military ideal but an inaccurate prediction, for both Cicero and the Roman republic, in part due to the inferiority of their arms, were killed within the year by Caesar's standing army.

In a 1774 court case, Adams wrote that "an Englishman's dwelling House is his Castle," and that every person "shall enjoy in his own dwelling House as compleat a security, safety and Peace and Tranquility as if it was . . . defended with a Garrison and Artillery."67 Adams exercised the right personally—when he sailed to France in 1778, he took along a pocket pistol.68

Patrick Henry shot back that the power to resist oppression rests upon the right to possess arms: Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.

One of the final speeches, and the final word on the right to have arms, was by Zachariah Johnson, who observed that the new Constitution could never result in religious persecution or other oppression. He added: "The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons.

Stephen P. Halbrook

It is a natural right which the people have reserved to themselves, confirmed by the Bill of Rights, to keep arms for their own defence; and as Mr. Blackstone observes, it is to be made use of when the sanctions of society and law are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.

It is a natural right which the people have reserved to themselves, confirmed by the Bill of Rights, to keep arms for their own defence; and as Mr. Blackstone observes, it is to be made use of when the sanctions of society and law are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.64

Pennsylvania was the first to declare that "the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves, and the state.

the Supreme Court in McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) added: "The right to keep and bear arms was considered no less fundamental by those who drafted and ratified the Bill of Rights." For that proposition, Justice Samuel Alito, author of the opinion, referred the reader to five chapters of this book.

A general militia composed of all citizens capable of bearing arms was seen as superior to a select militia consisting of a selective group, which bordered on a standing army, the bane of liberty.

Luther Martin of Maryland replied that "the states would never give up the power over the militia; and that, if they were to do so, the militia would be less attended to by the general than by the state governments."21 After Gerry warned that granting Congress powers inconsistent with the existence of the states would lead to civil war, Madison rejoined that "as the greatest danger to liberty is from large standing armies, it is best to prevent them by an effectual provision for a good militia.

Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.