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| There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity, hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom. The other vision finds its roots in the spirit of our founding revolution and in the leaders of this nation who embraced the age of reason. It loves freedom, encourages diversity, embraces science and affirms the dignity and rights of every individual. It sees America as a moral nation, neither completely religious nor completely secular. It defines patriotism as love of country and of the people who make it strong. It defends all citizens against unjust coercion and irrational conformity. This second vision is our vision. It is the vision of a free society. We must be bold enough to proclaim it and strong enough to defend it against all its enemies. (Rabbi Sherwin Wine) | [▲] | [▼] |
| For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? "Boston" Stanza 15 (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. (Ramsey Clark) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Freedom lies in being bold. (Robert Frost) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. (Rosa Luxemburg) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. (Samuel Adams) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. (Simone Weil) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. (Somerset Maugham) | [▲] | [▼] |
| People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have. For example, the freedom of thought. Instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation. (Søren Kierkegaard) | [▲] | [▼] |
| No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. (Thomas Jefferson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. (Thomas Jefferson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. (Thomas Jefferson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. (Viktor Frankl) | [▲] | [▼] |
| To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot. (Virginia Woolf) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. (Virginia Woolf) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. frequently misattributed to Thomas Jefferson (Wendell Phillips) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least. (Wendy Kaminer) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. (Wendy Kaminer) | [▲] | [▼] |