#reed

Interestingly, when they are on our side, we usually refer to them as guerrillas or partisans or freedom fighters. When they, the men in the hills, oppose a government we support, we call them insurgents. ↗

— Dick Couch

#military-philosophy #freedom

Wonderful?" wrote J.O. Young in his diary. "To stand cheering, crying, waving your hat and acting like a damn fool in general. No one who has spent all but 16 days of the this war as a Nip prisoner can really know what it means to see 'Old Sammy' buzzing around over camp. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#freedom #wwii #freedom

In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for. ↗

— Julia Child

#history #julia-child #mccarthyism #politics #politics-of-the-united-states

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization. ↗

— W.A.R. Gibb

#atheist #christian #civilization #complete #earth

Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#freedom #ideology #language #freedom

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#creed #day #every #hard #lies

We ...recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history—the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of compromise with those who would distort the ideals of men that died for freedom. ↗

— Carlos Bulosan

#freedom #freedom

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom. ↗

— Frederick Forsyth

#diversity #freedom #internet #new #offers

Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked. Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#humility #montaigne #freedom

A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#chance #deceit #freedom #lawyers #life