Category Archives: Quotes

Enslave

“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free”
-Niccolo Machiavelli

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Never Run Away

“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”
-Winston Churchill

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Freedom of Speech

“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.”
-Benjamin Franklin

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Every Respect Diabolical

“The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical.”
-John Adams

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