Freedom, Knowledge and Truth Quotations
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"Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it." Adolf Hitler
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"We are not humans on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
Stephen Covey
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Charles Swindoll
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"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
-- Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334
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"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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"Do not bite the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?"
-- Thomas Jefferson
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"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily."
George Washington
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"The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing."
John Adams
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"A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security."
Samuel Adams
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"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
George Orwell - 1984
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"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally it is accepted as self-evident."
Schoepenhouer
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"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."
Winston Churchill
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"There are none so enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."
Goethe
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"History is the lie commonly agreed upon."
Voltaire
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"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance."
Albert Einstein
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"Wisdom is knowing how little we know."
Socrates
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"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain
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"In war, the truth must be guarded by a bodyguard of lies."
Winston Churchill
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"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.
David Crosby
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"The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."
Morpheus, in the movie The Matrix
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"the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled."
Aldous Huxley - Proper Studies.
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"We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal�what do we want in this country above all? People want to be happy right? Well aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun?"
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
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"When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
-- Thomas Jefferson.