Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government"

Isabel Paterson, Journalist

"Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success"

Mark Skousen, Economist

"I want freedom and I realize that the only way to get it is to quit breaking the law"

Gary Gilmore, Criminal

"Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive"

Henry Steele Commager, Historian

"From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps"

Hamad bin Isla Al Khalifi

"After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it"

Fanny Kaplan, Activist

"They just didn't have the sense of the strength of their vote. Just thought it wasn't necessary"

Charles Phillips

"How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky"

E. T. A. Hoffmann, Critic

"Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government"

Arthur Hoppe

"The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded"

Franklin Pierce, President

"Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times"

Florence E. Allen, Judge

"The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness"

Thomas Francis Meagher, Soldier

"How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?"

Dan Savage, Writer

"We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy"

Franklin Raines, Businessman

"The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical"

Robert Bourassa, Politician

"Without free speech, no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful"

Charles Bradlaugh, Activist

"The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment"

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Publisher

"In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom"

Anthony Kennedy, Judge

"Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point"

Abdoulaye Wade, Statesman

"Every invalid is a prisoner"

Marguerite Yourcenar, Novelist

"The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unjustified as a response to any published word or image"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"America is practically owned by China"

Tom Winnifrith, Journalist

"The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history"

Todd Akin, Politician

"When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law"

John Mica, Politician

"I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have"

Susan Powter, Celebrity

"When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints"

John Coleman, Businessman

"Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves"

Robert A. Dahl, Professor

"America does not fight for land, glory or riches"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy"

Tommy Franks, Soldier

"The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"Indeed, I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember, not as a petitioner I am sure"

Margaret Cavendish, Writer

"Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom"

Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman

"If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power"

Lionel Jospin, Statesman

"There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

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