Liberty Quotes

“They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom..."

"You may tie my hands with chains and my feet with shackles, and put me in the dark prison, but you shall not enslave my thinking, for it is free, like the breeze in the spacious sky."


-Kahlil Gabrin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil_Gibran

Imagine...

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. " -George Orwell

Imagine a future where your house in controlled via Smartgrid GE technology. You are allotted a certain number of toilet flushes per day. Your thermostat is recorded and you are heavily taxed/penalized if you increase or decrease your temperature in your household outside of 'environmentally friendly' parameters.

Imagine having to have a license to own a home. Imagine having to have a license to reproduce and parent a child to government standards. Imagine it being illegal to grow your own vegetables and store the seeds.

Imagine mandatory military service of the return of the draft.

Imagine the end of the middle class and the American Dream. The middle class is replaced with the working poor or indentured servant along with the 'disabled' poor who suckle at government teat, and a rich elitist ruling class which create new taxes and penalties on former liberties every day.

Imagine turning in your guns for your own safety.

Imagine the Federal Govt and the Mass Media joining forces to make movies and TV shows in which the new bad guys are not Cobra Commander, the Russians, or a mad scientist but the new bad guy is the Libertarian, the Christian, the Ron Paul Supporter, the Homeschooler, the Constitutionalists, the Hunters, the Farmers, the Ex Military Vets...

The Federal Government and the Powers that Be will fail...

They have overstepped their bounds and put too much faith in their puppet Obama...

The Swine Flu Vaccine Propaganda has failed...Families and individuals have refused their shots and made informed decisions..

The Puppet Obama has an record low approval rating for a President within his first year...

Sons and Daughters of Liberty all across America and the World are awakening...

Tyrannist and Despotists would be wise to leave America now... A sleeping bear has been awakened from hibernation and she wants her liberties back...

Inspiring Quotes from Gandhi

Ron Paul

"When government breaks the law and defies the Constitution, it sets the standard that makes it much easier for society to do the same. When government and politicians show contempt for the law, it's signal that everyone else can do it as well. The real irony is that when the individual lives within the Constitution and tries to hold government officials responsible, they become the lawbreakers. If a situation like this is not rectified, it is destined to lead to violence."

-Ron Paul 'Audit the Fed'

Stand against the impending New World order and Global Governance lies of Al Gore, Obama, and Bush

"...first (they came) for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . and by that time there was no one left to speak up." -German Pastor Martin Niemoller

Inspirational Quotes from real Americans

"If ye love wealth better than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or your arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you,
and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."-Samuel Adams 1722-1803 (Father of the American Revolution and Original Son of Liberty)


"The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution
was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious
sentiments of their duties and obligations ...
This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and
affections of the people, was the real American Revolution." - John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President

"The high-minded man
must care more for the truth
than for what people think." -Aristotle 384-322 BC) Greek philosopher

"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the
beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would
otherwise involve... But how is this legal plunder to be identified?
Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to
them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn't belong.
See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing
what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then
abolish that law without delay ... No legal plunder; this is the
principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic." -Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848.

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.
Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force.
Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." -Patrick Henry USA Founding Father.

Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution, June 5, 1788, in_Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,_ Jonathan Elliot, ed., v.3 p.45 (Philadelphia, 1836)

Inspirational Quotes

On the altar of God, I swear eternal hostility against all forms of tyranny over the mind of man." -- Thomas Jefferson

Why I joined the John Birch Society...

THE WAR WEARY FARMER
by
JOHN M. BIRCH
I should like to find the existence of
what my father called "Plain living
and high thinking."
I want some fields and hills,
woodlands and streams I can call my
own. I want to spend my strength in
making fields green, and the cattle
fat, so that I may give sustenance to
my loved ones, and aid to those
neighbors who suffer misfortune. I do
not want a life of monotonous papershuffling
or of trafficking with
money-mad traders.
I only want enough of science to
enable fruitful husbandry of the land
with simple tools, a time for leisure,
and the guarding of my family's
health. I do not care to be absorbed in
the endless examining of force and
space and matter, which I believe can
only slowly lead to God.
I do not want a hectic hurrying from
place to place on whizzing machines
or busy streets. I do not want an
elbowing through crowds of impatient
strangers who have time neither to
think their own thoughts nor to know
real friendship. I want to live slowly,
to relax with my family before a

glowing fireplace, to welcome the
visits of my neighbors, to worship
God, to enjoy a book, to lie on a
shaded grassy bank and watch the
clouds sail across the blue.
I want to love a wife who prefers rural
peace to urban excitement, one who
would rather climb a hilltop to watch
a sunset with me than to take a taxi to
any Broadway play. I want a woman
who is not afraid of bearing children,
and who is able to rear them with a
love for home and the soil, and the
fear of God.
I want of Government only protection
against the violence and injustices of
evil or selfish men.
I want to reach the sunset of life
sound in body and mind, flanked by
strong sons and grandsons, enjoying
the friendship and respect of
neighbors, surrounded by fertile
fields and sleek cattle, and retaining
my boyhood faith in Him who
promised a life to come.
Where can I find this world? Would
its anachronism doom it to ridicule or
loneliness? Is there yet a place for
such simple ways in my own America
or must I seek a vale in Turkestan
where peaceful flocks still graze the
quiet hills.
This is the "prose poem" referred to on Page
102. It was written by John in April, 1945,
four months before his death.

For more info on the John Birch Society:

http://www.jbs.org/about

or feel free to email me at tnsonsofliberty@comcast.net for more information on the John Birch Society

Patriotic Quotes

Of the Boston Tea Party, John Adams wrote, "There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this last effort of the patriots that I greatly admire."

"You do not become the dissident, just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career, you were thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures, and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends up with you being branded as an enemy of society." -Vaclev Havel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel
"He was also famous for his essays, most particularly for his articulation of “Post-Totalitarianism” (Power of the Powerless), a term used to describe the modern social and political order that enabled people to "live within a lie.""

Civil Disobedience

Every American should read this book. This should be read in every public school. Write these words on walls, monuments, and make them into posters and billboards.

Purchase a couple of copies...One for yourself and pass out the rest...

Henry David Thoreau 'On Civil Disobedience'

http://www.amazon.com/Civil-Disobedience-Other-Essays-Thoreau/dp/1607961032/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255622443&sr=8-2-spell
Selected Quotes:

"The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies."

"In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones" "Others- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God."

"A very few-as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men- serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it."

"In other words, when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is that fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army."

"I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, neat at home, co-operate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless."

"O for a man who is a man, and, and my neighbor says. has a bone is his back which you cannot pass your hand through!"

"Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the President. Why do they not dissolve it themselves-the union between themselves and the State"

"Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place today, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less despondent spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles."

"For my own part, I should not like to think that I ever rely on the protection of the State."

"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion."

LIBERTY OR DEATH

"...if liberty must perish, or the government be overthrown, I would not hesitate, at the hazard of life, to resort to revolution, and to tear down a corrupt government that could neither be reformed nor borne by freemen." -John C. Calhoun


Below is a good link summarizing the life of Vice President John C. Calhoun...
http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/johnccalhoun.html

American Wisdom

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. " -- John Adams

"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world." -- Benjamin Harrison

Bruce Schneier:

"Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom."

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die." -- Herbert Hoover

"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error." -- Andrew Jackson

"One man with courage makes a majority." -- Andrew Jackson

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison

"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." -- Martin Van Buren

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." -- George Washington

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry: "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are mined .... The great object is that every man be armed .... everyone who is able may have a gun."

"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can
any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is
preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant,
and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own
weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."


-- Samuel Adams
(1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
Source: letter to James Warren, 4 November 1775. Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett (261)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Samuel.Adams.Quote.9D97

"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism." Alexander Hamilton

Quotes

"Love is the check and balance against the primitive nature of self"

Barry Donegan

Buy a gun

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

http://republicbroadcasting.org/?p=2668

Interesting article referenced in the above link..

Quotes from real Patriots... who had integrity and the fortitude to stand against Tyranny

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history,
whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Reluctant leaders are usually the best kind.. They've seen other men stomp into a battlefield or run a company into the ground and lose themselves with it...The reluctant leader has seen the folly in lust for power, money, and status... At the end of the day.. he desires freedom and liberty from tyranny and oppression... And he figures at somepoint, "Hell, might as well make a stand". -Unknown