Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business, how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order"

Mark Lloyd, Public Servant

"To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death"

Jennifer Dunn, Politician

"You know it's easy here to buy journalists"

Emile Lahoud, Statesman

"Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"Maybe politically, it wasn't wise, but when people have different view points, I think the public has a right to hear it, and the public has a right to make decisions based on those view points"

Scott McCallum, Politician

"As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our Constitution"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won"

Pam Grier, Actress

"On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security!"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate"

Max Baucus, Politician

"The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech"

Pete Wilson, Politician

"All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government"

Steven Hatfill, Scientist

"The Declaration is a magnificent document"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't"

Sharron Angle, Politician

"And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage"

Sharron Angle, Politician

"We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and national freedom"

Seth Low, Educator

"I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country"

Larry Craig, Politician

"It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies"

Mark Lloyd, Public Servant

"I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name"

Lydia Lunch, Musician

"I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame"

Wesley Clark, Soldier

"We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"My audience is much more center right, or centrist"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form, when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"It, the British System, is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others"

Tom G. Palmer, Educator

"You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing"

Timothy West, Actor

"No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago"

Lea DeLaria, Comedian

"In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility"

Jonathan Krohn, Author

"I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag, I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization, and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product, just making us more dependent on the industry"

John Shimkus, Politician

"Sharpton is not even on the Presidential primary ballot here in Louisiana"

Tony Brown, Journalist

"We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"No, our greatness does not come from our government"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

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