The Freedom Factor Quotes

“It took nearly half an hour for the bus to creep forward until it approached the heavy, fortress-like building of the border check-point. When Bryce saw the high barbed-wire fence with it's V-shaped barrier on the top stretching off in both directions, he shook his head in disbelief. Two days ago, he had driven across this border between New York and Connecticut at about sixty-five mils an hour with hardly a second thought.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“...the real question isn't whether it's bombs versus muskets or wagons versus automobiles. It still comes down to more basic thins like people's right to life, to liberty, and to peacefully enjoy the fruits of their labor.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“Every generation has tended to look on the past with an air of condescension. I call it history snobbery, and your generation is smitten with one of the worst cases ever.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“I guess it is a little disconcerting," she said evenly, "for you and the Committee on Constitutional Reform to have young people who value this country and who understand what made it strong. That will certainly make your task more difficult.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“When we drafted the Constitution we went to great lengths to provide a set of checks and balances between the three branches of government. That was the only way we saw to create a strong central government and yet still keep it from becoming a tyranny. Yet today, you have created numerous so-called government agencies that violate this system of checks and balances.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“We gave the best blood of our generation to win liberty for ourselves and our posterity. Would you throw it away so cheaply? And with the very instrument we gave you to protect it?”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“Well, there are all of the names you would recognize - Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Tom Paine, Paul Revere. There are over three hundred of us, actually. I wish all were as well known to this generation as the others. Every one played a part - along with thousands of others whose names are no in any history books.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“Who are you?" [Bryce] asked in a hoarse whisper
"Nathaniel Gorham." The man waited, expectantly, then his face fell. "You don't recognize it?"
Bryce could do no more than shake his head.
"Figures. If I'd said George Washington or Benjamin Franklin then you would have perked up. But Nathaniel Gorham? No... My name's right there next to theirs... At the bottom of the Constitution. Big as life, just like Ben's and General Washington's.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“...evil will never permanently triumph.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“...evil is always self-consuming. Even as Mannington overthrows the prime minister, he must himself begin to fear for his own security.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“Paul Adams stood up quickly. "We have not lost, Bryce," he whispered fiercely. "Not so long as the desire for freedom burns in the heart of one person. We have not lost!”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor

“I'm beginning to feel that same absolute determination that we cannot -must not!- simply sit back and accept cruelty and injustice. If we do, we become part of it.”
― Gerald N. Lund, The Freedom Factor