Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"We might say that the state is like an addictive drug: the more of it we have, the more we 'need' it and the more we come to 'depend' on it"

Michael Taylor, Criminal

"Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States"

Max Baucus, Politician

"Our Founders warned against this. They said, don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there"

Sharron Angle, Politician

"I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission"

Tom Hayden, Politician

"The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price"

Jo Ann Davis, Politician

"So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world, whether we like it or not"

Robert Foster Bennett, Politician

"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech"

Charles Bradlaugh, Activist

"Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates"

Frank Chodorov, Writer

"What they're doing is they're making the decisions for us. That's what this country is coming down to. They're going to make the decisions for us"

Michael Schiavo, Celebrity

"Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota"

Laura Ingraham, Celebrity

"Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag"

Larry Craig, Politician

"Having removed the dictator, the Allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold"

Kay Granger, Politician

"A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI"

Bob Graham, Politician

"So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"In real danger, sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret"

Stuart Symington, Businessman

"If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"People have given me the freedom, and believe in me enough to say, if I want to do these things, that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo"

Wayne Coyne, Musician

"The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control"

Kit Williams, Author

"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society"

Strom Thurmond, Politician

"In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me"

Sara Gilbert, Actress

"One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written"

Robert Emmet, Activist

"I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment"

George Nethercutt, Politician

"Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship"

Mike Rogers, Writer

"South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government"

Laura Ingraham, Celebrity

"There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism"

Robert Charles Winthrop, Politician

"The precondition to freedom is security"

Rand Beers, Soldier

"Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice"

Malcolm Boyd, Clergyman

"I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you"

Poppy Z. Brite, Author

"You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along'"

John Shelby Spong, Clergyman

"Everything TSA does is reactionary - first, they ban the box cutters, then, of course, you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber"

John Mica, Politician

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