"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." – Goethe

"Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free." – Harry Browne

"If it be a free Nation, let it be free." - George Fox

Frankness; openness; unreservedness.

The capacity to exercise choice; free will.

Exemption from an unpleasant or onerous condition.

Liberty of the individual from slavery, detention, or oppression.

Exemption from necessity, in choice and action; as, freedom of will.

Privileges; franchises; immunities. The condition of being free of restraints.

A right or the power to engage in certain actions without control or interference.

Exemption from the arbitrary exercise of authority in the performance of a specific action.

"The true free living human-being is the one that achieves his dream without depending on someone else." - Lao Tze

"Let's stop talking about freedom as if it is a commodity that someone can sneak in your house and steal. The real danger to our freedom is the false patriotism that tricks us into surrendering it willingly - and whether or not we build a concrete and steel monument to it is somewhat irrelevant." - Carolyn Almos

Freedom must be considered in the proper light.

It is a fallacy to suppose that we as human beings are truly free at all.

The only human being that could be considered free is that human that lives alone in the wilderness and has no contact with any other humans.

Because we are social animals every action we take either fits within the acceptable standards of the social group or it does not.

The question that needs to be asked is - "How much freedom of individual action can a social structure allow?"

The proper answer to that question is - "How responsible are the individuals that make up the social structure in question?

If the individuals that make up the social structure are responsible then more freedom should be granted them by the social structure.

If the individuals are less responsible then less freedom should be granted them.

Any other method of granting freedom in a social system, other than by merit, will be seen as unfair by the members of the social system that are responsible but are not properly compensated.

When freedom is withdrawn from those who are responsible the social fabric is corrupted.

The social structure in place becomes decadent as the civilization withers from within.

If freedom is returned to the people then the civilization can once again flourish.

Americans do not enjoy freedom or liberty by definition:

1) The controlling interests of America are not frank, open or unreserved.

2) The only choice most Americans have is which corporate overlord to be enslaved by.

3) Being ruled by immoral and unscrupulous individuals causes Americans to live under unpleasant and onerous conditions.

4) Americans are enslaved through their own selfish desires which are manufactured by their corporate overlords for social control purposes in the pursuit of profit.

5) Americans are free to act but only within exceedingly narrow boundaries set in place by their corporate and government overlords.

6) Privileges, franchises and immunities and the condition of being free of restraints applies only to American aristocracy.

7) Americans are 'free' to pay their taxes, choose their corporate overlord, choose their insurance carrier, choose their stock broker, choose their money manager, etcetera. Americans are not free to choose a representative in government that will represent their interests. Americans are not free to require corporations to be socially responsible. Americans are not free to breath fresh clean air and drink fresh clean water. Americans are not free of the drumbeat of the "American machine" that turns living, breathing, empathetic beings into mindless human robots.

8) Americans are not free from the arbitrary exercise of authority if it is in the purportedly "best interests" of society as a whole. (society as a whole = corporate interests)

liberty

"So long as some men wish to do violence to others, there cannot be complete liberty, for either the wish to do violence must be restrained, or the victims must be left to suffer. For this reason, although individuals and societies should have the utmost freedom as regards their own affairs, they ought not to have complete freedom as regards their dealings with others. To give freedom to the strong to oppress the weak is not the way to secure the greatest possible amount of freedom. This is the basis of the socialist revolt against the kind of freedom advocated by laissez-faire economists." - Bertrand Russell

Freedom to do as one pleases

Freedom from captivity or from slavery

Freedom or right to frequent or use a place

Freedom from external or foreign rule; independence

A female figure personifying freedom from despotism

Freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control

Freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint

Power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etcetera, according to choice.

Freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etcetera

A breach or overstepping of propriety or social convention considered by the social group to be an unwarranted or impertinent freedom in action or speech, or a form or instance of it

See Thomas Paine

See Thomas Jefferson

See George Washington

See American aristocracy

See Social Control

See The Subversion of American Democracy

See The Corruption of the American Dream

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