Peace Pilgrim Quotes

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it." For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.

I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

The love of liberty brought us here.

Once you have lost control over your people, you are on the road toward a potentially democratic society.

The people are the masters.

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

The essence of freedom is that each of us shares in the shaping of his own destiny.

The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves — not of the government.

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

The people are their own liberators.

Rejoice in the great, free emancipation of peoples.

The people must have the opportunity to vote for the liberation from slavery and blackmail imposed by technocrats in Brussels to return sovereignty to the country.

We take back control of our laws and Britain will be a proud independent nation again.

I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.

It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to posses the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will, and direct the national force; and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned, in spite of the legions which surround it.

It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.