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Friday Filosophy v.10.15.2021

FRIDAY FILOSOPHY v.10.15.2021

In the last two decades with the arrival of social media and their platforms we have started to see various new challenges to one of our most fundamental rights; the Freedom of Speech. These quotations and thoughts should provoke some thinking on this subject. It is very critical to our lives and our future that we protect our rights.

  • If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent, we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington
  • The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus
  • It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. Samuel Adams
  • May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. Peter Marshall
  • Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. Warren E. Burger
  • Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. Pope John Paul II
  • ‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. Friedrich August von Hayek
  • It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. Voltaire
  • Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Ronald Reagan
  • When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. Charles Evans Hughes
  • A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan
  • Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. Eleanor Roosevelt
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson
  • For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela
  • The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. Patrick Henry
  • Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others. Coretta Scott King
  • What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Salman Rushdie
  • What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long. Thomas Sowell

The Time is Now.

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Friday Filosophy #2015-20

We have reached our Friday Filosophy #2015-20 and are focusing upon our rights and pursuit of our goals this week:

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and the freedom in all just pursuits.

In matters of style, swim with the current; matters of principle, stand like a rock.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Some thoughts from Thomas Jefferson to provoke thought..

The time is now.