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Freedom, Knowledge and Truth Quotes

“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

“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

“I would much rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what was and never will be.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.”
– George Washington

“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in the exclusion of religious principle.”
– George Washington

“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
– Edward Abbey

“Be not intimidated… nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.”
– John Adams

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”
– John Adams

“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of a common enemy… While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once their virtue is lost, 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.”
– Samuel Adams

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors; they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them with care and diligence.”
– Samuel Adams

“All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.”
– Schopenhauer

“Men will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up, dust himself off and continue on.”
– Winston Churchill

“There are none so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.”
– Goethe

“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.”
– Albert Einstein

“Wisdom is knowing how little we know.”
– Socrates

“We are not humans on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
– Stephen Covey

“By heeding the truth, man can arouse himself from his present waking sleep and anticipate the inevitable changes which destiny brings and so pass consciously, confidently and relatively unscathed into the future.”
– D.J. Richards