Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.