Free State Quotes:

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Men, People, Ignorant, Informed Citizens, Justice Truth

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: People, Second Amendment, Liberty, Fifth Amendment, Militia

Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bears arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason,then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

- L. Neil Smith

topic: Gun, People, Second Amendment, Due Process, Free State

A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

- George Mason

topic: Army, Gun, People, 2 Amendment, Free State

The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.

- W. A. Criswell

topic: Scary, Church, Election, Free State

In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Newsweek, inc. Book Division (1974). “Thomas Jefferson: a biography in his own words”, HarperCollins Publishers

topic: Country, Pain, Fall, Free State

In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.

- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

topic: Years, Effort, Religion, Free State

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

source: Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

topic: Real, War, Hands, Free State

To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Xenophobia, Fighting, Racism, Extremism, Free State

Ulysses is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.

- Tom Paulin

source: "Not one of us" by Tom Paulin, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2000.

topic: Lying, Racism, Challenges, Ulysses, Free State

It is a fallacy to believe that a Republic of any kind can be won through the shackled Free State. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The Free State is British created and serves British Imperialist interests. It is the buffer erected between British Capitalism and the Irish Republic.

- Liam Mellows

topic: Believe, Ears, Republic, Free State

A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Exercise, Men, Play, Free State

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Sears Morgan (2006). “Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin”, p.257, Yale University Press

topic: Free State

The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

- William H. Seward

topic: Class, Southern, Slave, Free State, Classification

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.

- Tony Gilroy

topic: Writing, Sketching, States, Free State

The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.

- Baruch Spinoza

source: "Theological-Political Treatise". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Ch. 20, That In a Free State Every Man May Think What He Likes, and Say What He Thinks, 1670.

topic: Real, Liberty, Judgment, Free State

Baptists have long upheld the ideal of a free church in a free state. And from the beginning, they believed that forcing a person to worship against his will violated the principles of both Christianity and civility.

- George W. Bush

topic: Long, Church, Atheism, Free State

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

- Buffalo Bill

topic: Men, Slave, Granted, Free State, Missouri

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

- Demosthenes

topic: Tyrants, States, Dealings, Free State

The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of the very few that was still democratic in 1939. This book shows how the steely determination of one man, Kevin O'Higgins, made this possible. O'Higgins faced down mutinies in both the Gardai and the Army. He dissolved the Dáil Courts which were a parallel system that might easily have undermined the conventional courts. With WT Cosgrave, he put through a constitution which reconciled the local opponents of independence with the new State.

- John Bruton

topic: Determination, War, Book, Cauldrons, Free State

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

- Demosthenes

topic: Safety, Alliances, Safe, Despots, Free State

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Peace, War, House, Free State

The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have therefore more to buy and more to sell. Hence the free states have a direct pecuniary interest in the civil freedom of all the other states. Commerce between free and slave states is not reciprocal or equal.

- Lysander Spooner

source: Lysander Spooner (1845). “The Unconstitutionality of Slavery”, p.130

topic: People, Slave, States, Free State

A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

- James Madison

source: James Madison, Gaillard Hunt, James Brown Scott (1999). “The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787: Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.690, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

topic: Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons, Fifth Amendment, Militia

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

- Bernard Crick

source: Bernard Crick (2013). “In Defence of Politics”, p.97, A&C Black

topic: Together, Politics, Common, Common Interests, Free State

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

topic: Hands, Dying, Liberty, Free State, New Places

A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.

- Michael Faraday

topic: Horse, Men, Four, Respiration, Free State

The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone except its founder.

- Leopold II of Belgium

source: "The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption". Book by Clive Foss, 2006.

topic: Unique, Secret, Kind, Congo, Free State

I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a good thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it. The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is right or wrong, whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it; and the right of free action, the right of free thought, the right of free judgment upon the question is dearer to every true American than any other under a free government.

- Stephen A. Douglas

source: Bob Blaisdell, Stephen A. Douglas (2012). “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates”, p.16, Courier Corporation

topic: War, Government, People, Free Thought, Free Government

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

- Tiberius

source: "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, (Ch. 28), 121 AD.

topic: Freedom Of Speech, Speech, Should, Free State

The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

- William Blackstone

source: Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Edward Christian, John Eykyn Hovenden, Thomas Lee (1861). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books, with an analysis of the work”

topic: Liberty, Matter, Criminals, Free State

If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

- Ramana Maharshi

topic: Struggle, Fighting, Self, Primal, Free State

This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State. This meant much at the time; it means much now and will continue to be the beacon of light and guidance for ourselves and of other nations. All that is good and practical and wise in the new developments can best be worked out under our form of government without destroying any of the basic principles upon which it rests.

- Oscar Straus

topic: Wise, Mean, Light, Beacons, Free State

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

- William H. Seward

topic: Alternatives, Slavery, Slave, Free State

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

- William O. Douglas

topic: Home, Police, Mind, Police State, Free State