#reed

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#asserts #being #cannot #creator #every

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#blessings #care #chosen #committed #favored

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. ↗

— Colin Firth

#greedy #i #much #next #person

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. ↗

— Colin Firth

#haunting #i #i think #margins #mind

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#freedom #had #i #jail #lot

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#contribute #fail #far #freedom #function

From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis for political activism in support of a better socioeconomic environment. Found in American homes, truth from the Hebrew Christian Bible has enabled individual liberty to prevail over secular empires because it is a practical message about reality from man’s Creator. In their quest for liberty, Americans focused upon the conspicuously self-evident “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” It is the governing character of these principles (laws), such as humility, the Golden Rule, and the Ten Commandments, that leads to success. This is the sure foundation upon which man’s right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” rests. Called “virtue” by America’s Founding Fathers, the impartial and divine element frees man to do what is right. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17). ↗

— David A. Norris

#freedom #government #judeo-christian #liberty #life

As Taiwan's friend and ally, I believe it is important for the United States to monitor the situation in the Taiwan Strait very carefully to help ensure Taiwan is not forced into a position which would endanger its freedom or its democracy. ↗

— Jim Costa

#believe #carefully #democracy #endanger #ensure

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#either #free #little #such #thing

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#believe #citizen #diminishes #dollar #each