US
Presidents Quotes on Freedom
Other
Famous Freedom Quotes
Quotes that should scare you to death and wake you up!
The
United States
Constitution
The
Bill of Rights
Declaration
of
Independence
Stop
throwing the Constitution in my face, it’s just a g__da__ed piece of
paper!
President
George W. Bush
in a meeting in the Oval office (Nov. 2005)
to discuss renewing the USA Patriot Act
as reported by Capitol Hill Blue
If
this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as
I'm the dictator.
George
W. Bush,
during a photo-op with Congressional leaders
December 18, 2000
A
dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about
it.
George
W. Bush
Business Week
July 30, 2001
There
ought to be limits on freedom.
George
W. Bush
[the]
Constitution is an outdated document.
Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales
stated while still White House counsel
Today
American's would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore
order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they
were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or
promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all
peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from
this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented
with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for
the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world
government.
Henry
Kissinger - May 21, 1992
in an address to the Bilderberg Organization Meeting, Evian, France
The
Oracular Decisions of God have positively declared that the Slave-Trade is
intrinsically good and licit, [and that the holding of slaves] is
perfectly consonant to the principles of the Law of Nature, the Mosaic
Dispensation, and the Christian Law... [slavery has] the positive sanction
of God in its support.
Raymond
Harris
from Scriptural Researches
on the Licitness of the Slave-Trade
Oh, how I
hate the phrase we have—a 'living document,’ we now have a
Constitution that means whatever we want it to mean. The Constitution is
not a living organism, for Pete's sake... We can take away rights just as
we can grant new ones. Don't think that it's a one-way street.
Supreme
Court Justice Antonin Scalia
The
best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the
average voter.
Winston
Churchill
I
don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they
be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
President George H. W. Bush
during an August 27, 1987 interview by Rob Sherman,
as reported in Brochure #8286 (circa 1991)
published by American Atheist Veterans
The
wife is to subordinate herself to her husband. . . the woman is to place
herself under the authority of the man.
James
Leon Holmes
2003 Nominated by Bush to the District Court
for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Only
someone completely distrustful of all government would be opposed to what
we are doing with surveillance cameras.
Howard
Safir
NYC Police Commissioner – 1999
FREEDOM
& DEMOCRACY (OR IS IT?)
Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be
anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the
willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a
great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.
Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani - NYC
New York Times, March 17, 1994
We
should just turn the sheriff loose and have him arrest every Muslim that
crosses the state line.
Saxby
Chambliss
U.S. Rep. (R-GA)
[Valdosta Daily Times, 11/20/01]
We
need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The
purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the
given norm can be surgically mutilated.
Dr.
Jose Delgado
1974 Congressional Testimony
The
individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence,
but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical
perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This
kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically
control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by
electric stimulation of the brain.
Dr.
Jose Delgado, Director of Neuropsychiatry
Yale University Medical School
Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974
.
. . as in the case of the U.S. Constitution, we are more likely to make
progress by pressing the existing instrument to the outer limits of its
potentialities through creative use. . .
.
. . The house of world order will have to be built from the bottom up
rather than the top down. . . an end run around sovereignty, eroding it
piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal
assault.
Richard
N. Gardner - April, 1974, Foreign Affairs
from The Hard Road to World Order
(Council on Foreign Relation's Journal)
We
need honest, reasoned debate, and not fear-mongering. To those . . . who
scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is
this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity
and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and
pause to America's friends. They encourage people of goodwill to remain
silent in the face of evil.
John
Ashcroft,
Attorney General, 2001
while depriving millions of American
residents due process to a fair trial
The
government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are
essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures...The number of
cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a
law is in itself a limited one.
Adolf
Hitler,
address to the German Reichstag on the occasion
of the enactment of the Enabling Act, March 23, 1933
Military
tribunals, preventative detention, expanded police powers,
lifting restrictions on the intelligence agencies, mass-spraying of toxic
pesticides, racial profiling ... No need to worry!
Mitch Cohen
2001
War
has always diminished our freedom. When our freedom has expanded, it has
not come as a result of war or of anything the government has done but as
a result of what citizens have done.
Howard
Zinn
They...
brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things,
which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks' bells. They willingly
traded everything they owned. . . They were well-built, with good bodies
and handsome features. . . They do not bear arms, and do not know them,
for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out
of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane. . . They
would make fine servants. . . With fifty men we could subjugate them all
and make them do whatever we want.
Christopher
Columbus
(from his log - referring to the
Arawak Indians of the Antilles)
Heresy
is only another word for freedom of thought.
Graham
Greene
novelist and journalist
(1904-1991)
A
clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to
supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist
regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post
in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to
the Nazi regime....
William
E. Dodd
US Ambassador to Germany, 1937
as quoted in the NY Times
Jesus
Christ Joseph Smith
Jr.
Brigham Young
John Taylor
Wilford Woodruff
Lorenzo Snow
Joseph F. Smith
Heber J. Grant
George A. Smith
David O. McKay
Joseph F. Smith
Harold B. Lee
Spencer Kimball Ezra T. Benson Howard Hunter
Gordon Hinckley First Presidency Elders
