Free Freedom: An American Ideal

We are born to be free. Freedom does not consist of possessing, but it is actually being without. Not mutual benefits, but violence, greed, hatred, abomination, and much more is what an individual or community does not need. An average American citizen in the United States would define freedom has an individual being able to do anything they feel that does not involve crimes. They have all the rights that are in the Amendments. They are just natural. Therefore, everyone is equal and have the same amount of rules to follow unless broken, then consequences and punishments differ. Many could agree with this statement. However, the actual dictionary definition has multiple meanings. In fact there are seven, which are: 1. The state of being free …show more content…
can do whatever they want. For example, churches are their own private organization and wish to do whatever they please. (Modern day example) However, if any laws are broken, then their organization must not be allowed to be funded anymore. Therefore, they would go out of business. Also whatever community/organization is not associated with the government must be peaceful. Reason being, they have their own rules and consequences. So if they decide to break any of the Amendments they are no longer a private organization/community. Freedom is considered an American Ideal because no one in the United States is a slave. If an individual is a slave, then the ‘owner’ is doing illegal things. I’m not saying every country has slaves, but some countries do or at least parts of the countries that could be in poverty or some other type of disaster. Be respectful and useful to our community and …show more content…
First quote is: “For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate.” This quote relates to the ideal of Freedom because it fulfills important responsibilities which the citizens of patriotism hold for their country. It is the only hope of truth they have. Second quote is: “We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.” This quote relates to the ideal of Freedom because it demonstrates how much these people worked to get their freedom. However, it still wasn’t working, so they tried even harder to find hope and peace to get more freedom. Third quote is: “Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” These people are willing to fight all they have together to have peace. No more will they have to worry about the British guards, nor their acts. The rebels/colonist went through so much suffering to acquire freedom. These quotes was very powerful in any perspective. The Declaration of independence is an amazing text for relating