#reed

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#conservative #conservative movement #created #dreams #freedom

We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#chose #founding #freedom #government #instead

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me. ↗

— Wilma Rudolph

#competing #feeling #freedom #fresh #fresh air

I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#another #apparently #band #because #called

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#defense #freedom #frightens #manner #mechanisms

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. ↗

— John Ruskin

#any #beloved #candidly #creeds #dark

I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ambitious #australia #delusion #delusional #desire

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#chief #education #faced #fact #freedom

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#defined #desires #freedom #general #may