“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, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” –Ronald Reagan

Thank you Ronald Reagan

Lindyy

very remembrance. Thanks Mr. President.

Amen.

freedoms just another word for, nothin left to loose---

I love that song!

Amen to that. It's an important thing to keep sight of.

Being a child of the 60's early 70's, I liked Janice Joplin, to a certain degree. She sure could belt out a song. I am not sure if her song "Me and Bobby McGee" quite falls into what President Reagan meant.

But, if it brings you good memories, that is good.

Lindyy

Cheers!

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine

Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression. ~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081

Drivnmenutz:


THANK YOU!

Lindyy

my pleasure... i get kinda passionate about this stuff

Bah!!!! Says who???

Says an american president who spent how much on weapons purely designed to kill?

Freedom... most wouldn't know freedom if it bit them on the arse.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political. ~Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed, 1950

thought this was another good quote...

Well, Ronald Reagan, did "free" the mentally ill from inpatient care. They were freed to live on the streets. This is even talked about in college textbooks.

In order to have freedom we must be prepared to defend it. Peace and liberty are two slightly different concepts. Although if our country didn't spend much on weapons we wouldn't have peace either. Can we say..."Irony".

Drivenmenutz, I disagree...Australia is not a warmongering formidable force, never has been, probably never will be....we dont have a massive budget for weapons, to defend our freedom.

We help out when asked, and do our best to let others be, unless there is oppression, and other countries ask for our help.

We have peace, we have freedom....TODAY...why?

Lots of reasons...and yes, it could have looked different during world war 2, however, the government of the time had already drawn a big blue line across the top of Australia to hand over to Japan, in the event of invasion...what does that say?

Peace and freedom is more about state of mind, and what one is willing to compromise on.

Freedom, and liberty, is a catch cry, that will be ever elusive to those that prefer bullying tactics... all it does is create a mindset of having to sleep with one eye open and hope those that have been left disgruntled don't multiply quicker than one can count....

Freedom is NOT about beating the sh*t out of someone else, murdering women and children, and using the glossy term 'collateral damage'...that just builds resentment.