{"quotes":[{"text":"We are soon approaching a refined holiday, 'Merry Mas,' where Christ will be taken out of its context.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["america","anti-god","antichrist","changes","christianity","christmas","complainers","generation","government","holiday","jesus","liberty","meaning-of-life","merry-christmas","religion","society"],"id":297,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Immediately after his re-election [Cameron] announced: “For too long we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens so long as you obey the law we will leave you alone.” A statement so far to the right that it conceded the political centre ground to Judge Dredd.","author":"Frankie Boyle","tags":["david-cameron","law","liberty","politics"],"id":387,"author_id":"Frankie+Boyle"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nelson Mandela","tags":["freedom","liberty"],"id":1256,"author_id":"Nelson+Mandela"},{"text":"No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.","author":"Rose Wilder Lane","tags":["anarchy","ancap","fascism","freedom","individualism","libertarian","liberty","mafia","philosophy","politics","state","statism","taxation","theft","tyranny","voluntaryism"],"id":1329,"author_id":"Rose+Wilder+Lane"},{"text":"Can social progress be made without government?It's like saying 'can happiness be achieved without the initiation of violence? Can romance be achieved without rape? Can profitability be achieved without theft? Can economic growth be achieved without the mass indebted enslavement and counterfeiting of the federal reserve?'.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["anarchy","austrian-school-of-economics","freedom","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","philosophy","voluntaryism"],"id":1641,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.","author":"Rush Limbaugh","tags":["freedom","challenges","liberty "],"id":1708,"author_id":"Rush+Limbaugh"},{"text":"I lent only half an ear to those well-intentioned folk who say that happiness is enervating, liberty too relaxing, and that kindness is a corruption for those upon whom it is practiced. That may be; but in the world as it is, such reasoning amounts to a refusal to nourish a starving man decently, for fear that in a few years he may suffer from overfeeding. When useless servitude has been alleviated as far as possible, and unnecessary misfortune avoided, there will remain as a test of man’s fortitude that long series of veritable ills, death, old age, and incurable sickness, love unrequited and friendship rejected or betrayed, the mediocrity of a life less vast than our projects and duller than our dreams; in short, all the woes caused by the divine nature of things.","author":"Marguerite Yourcenar","tags":["kindness","liberty","life"],"id":1775,"author_id":"Marguerite+Yourcenar"},{"text":"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["courage","despotism","liberty","life","timid"],"id":1963,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness.","author":"Geoffrey Wood","tags":["christian-fiction","christianity","contentment","gratitude","grimrack","happiness","liberty","life","pursuit","religion"],"id":2578,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Wood"},{"text":"When it comes to matters of dealing with the Government, one has to go through red tape just to get to the actual red tape.","author":"J.Adam Snyder","tags":["freedom","government","j-adam-snyder","liberty","politics"],"id":2672,"author_id":"J.Adam+Snyder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1362,"pages":137,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}