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dirknb@hotmail.com
02-16-2008, 12:06 AM
I'm wanting to compile a list of eye opening and prophetic quotes by respected and/or well known leaders for some of the people I'm trying to educate. I've seen so many through the years, I wish I had them all written down.

Quotes like these:


"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

"It is the first responsiblity of every citizen to question authority." - Benjamin Franklin

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

"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington

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

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford

"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance." -- James Madison

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson

"This Act (the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs the Bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalised... The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill." - Congressman Charles Lindbergh Sr.

"I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men ... We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men." - Woodrow Wilson

"Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States." - Barry Goldwater

“The Federal Reserve (Bank) is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this Nation is run by the international bankers.” - Congressman Louis T. McFadden

"Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers." - Louis T. McFadden

"When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed (Reserve) to conceal its powers but the truth is - The Fed has usurped the government!!" - Louis T. McFadden

"The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money" - Charles A. Lindbergh Sr

"The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependant on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class." - Nathan Rothschild

"But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice." -- George Washington

"It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence.... The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all." - Louis T. McFadden

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs." – Thomas Jefferson

“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes such as mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and control credit." - Sir Josiah Stamp

"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." - James A. Garfield

"The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution." - Benjamin Franklin

"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." - Woodrow Wilson

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The real rulers of Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." - Felix Frankfurter - Supreme Court Justice

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“For we are opposed, around the world, by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence; on infiltration instead of invasion; on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice; on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined, its dissenters are silenced, not praised; no expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the cold war, in short, with a wartime discipline no democracy would ever hope to wish to match.” John F. Kennedy

"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight." - John F. Kennedy

“We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.” – James Paul Warburg


"The American Communists worked energetically and tirelessly to lay the foundations for the United Nations, which we were sure would come into existence." - Earl Brower - President of Communist Party USA


"The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. It's purpose is to destroy the United States." - Congressman John E. Rankin


"To achieve One World Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, their loyalty to family traditions and national identification." - Brock Chisolm, when director of UN World Health Organisation



"Now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order. A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfil the historic vision of its founders." - George Bush




“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” – David Rockefeller


"The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper." - Thomas Jefferson


"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson


“I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.” - John D. Rockefeller


“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” – Hermann Goerring


"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison


"Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." - George Washington


"War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures." - Ron Paul


"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." - George Washington


"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none." - Thomas Jefferson


“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin


"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom...crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" - Samuel Adams


"The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest and ourselves united. From the conclusion of [their] war [for independence, a nation begins] going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of [that] war will remain on [them] long, will be made heavier and heavier, till [their] rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion." - Thomas Jefferson


"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." - George Washington


"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson


“The 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. An end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.” – Richard Gardner


When asked by a woman while he was leaving the Constitutional Convention what kind of government they had given us - "A Republic, ma'am, if you can keep it." - Benjamin Franklin


"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind." - Thomas Jefferson

"I plede allegiance, to the flag, of the United States of America. And to the Republic, for which it stands." from the Pledge of Allegiance

"In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." - Thomas Jefferson

"Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy." - Ron Paul

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” – Oscar Wilde

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” – John Adams

“Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” - James Madison

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” - James Russell Lowell

“Democracy passes into despotism.” – Plato

“Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.” – Plato

"Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants." - Seneca

“Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.” - Thomas Babington Macaulay

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy,from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." - Alexander Tyler


"We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria. We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade. And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000." - Bill Clinton

“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” – Joseph Stalin

“Democracy is the road to socialism” – Karl Marx

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” – Karl Marx

"The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice." – Mikhail Gorbachev

"Every part of our program of perestroika -- and the program as a whole, for that matter -- is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy." – Mikhail Gorbachev

“In October 1917 we parted with the Old World, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, the world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road." – Mikhail Gorbachev

"There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States." – George Bush

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!” – George W. Bush

Joe3113
02-16-2008, 12:12 AM
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”

- Thomas Jefferson

JimInNY
02-16-2008, 12:15 AM
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom...crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" ~ Samuel Adams

integrity
02-16-2008, 12:16 AM
http://www.brainyquote.com/


A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul396265.html)

All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul396375.html)

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul381828.html)

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul396014.html)

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul402251.html)

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul408561.html)

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul401775.html)

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul395978.html)

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul395995.html)

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul402252.html)

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul396272.html)

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul408562.html)

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul408563.html)

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul381826.html)

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul381824.html)

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul173223.html)

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul173224.html)

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul394418.html)

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul173225.html)

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul395988.html)

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul173226.html)

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul381825.html)

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul408564.html)

You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Ron Paul (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ronpaul381827.html)

Enzo
02-16-2008, 12:27 AM
a few of my favorites:

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. - Oscar Wilde

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do - Hermann Hesse

Only the ideas that we really live have any value. - Hermann Hesse

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. - Noam Chomsky

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. -Noam Chomsky

jlaker
02-16-2008, 12:40 AM
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.

No mans life, liberty of forturne is safe while our legislature is in session.

It is the first responsiblity of every citizen to question authority. -Ben Franklin

Libertytree
02-16-2008, 12:48 AM
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy,from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

Alexander Tyler

gracebkr
02-16-2008, 12:51 AM
Matthew 7:15

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Mark 10:44-45

And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Matthew 12:25

But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.


Matthew 10:34

Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.


John 8:32

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.


To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. -Teddy Roosevelt

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. -George Washington

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. -George Washinton;)

I like quotes, I could go on all day

newbitech
02-16-2008, 12:53 AM
see my sig lines

jillian
02-16-2008, 08:46 AM
"Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither and will lose both."

Benjamin Franklin

MJfromCT
02-16-2008, 09:03 AM
see sig

Thurston Howell III
02-16-2008, 09:11 AM
"The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest and ourselves united. From the conclusion of [their] war [for independence, a nation begins] going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of [that] war will remain on [them] long, will be made heavier and heavier, till [their] rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVII, 1782. (*) ME 2:225


How prophetic, eh?

Zolah
02-16-2008, 09:25 AM
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_paine.html

A lot of mine are in the above link :)

dirknb@hotmail.com
02-16-2008, 08:05 PM
Thanks! Those are some good ones.

Primbs
02-17-2008, 01:48 PM
Great collection.

Zolah
02-21-2008, 04:54 PM
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

I recently heard this quote and thought of the good Doctor, it was a Scottish comedian Billy Connolly that I heard it from, apparently from a book A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and the quote itself from a Mr Jonathan Swift

Ladred
02-21-2008, 05:16 PM
We will not use our friendship to impose on their sovereignty, for our own sovereignty is not for sale.

Since I hadn't seen one from the gipper yet.

BuddyRey
02-21-2008, 05:40 PM
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater

And, just for good measure, here's the WORST historical quote ever. Someday, these words will stack up with the most wicked and inhuman lies told by Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.

"We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that 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." - Rudy Giuliani