Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system"

Richard Lugar, Politician

"A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition"

Joe Miller, Politician

"The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that"

Haley Barbour, Politician

"Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit"

Frederick Pollock, Judge

"Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship"

Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Politician

"Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people"

Amy Grant, Musician

"The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period"

Kim Y. Sam, Writer

"Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future"

Dick Morris, Author

"Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult, but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes"

Ferdinand Mount, Writer

"For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want"

Ferdinand Mount, Writer

"A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence"

Ferdinand Mount, Writer

"In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people, there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt"

John Reed, Journalist

"Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"Life without Liberty is far worse than death"

Hamid Karzai, Statesman

"The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"There is only one conflict in Ukraine today, and it is between the regime and the people"

Viktor Yushchenko, Statesman

"The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"Sovereignty is as necessary as ever"

Pauline Marois, Politician

"My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent"

Pauline Marois, Politician

"For me, everything is still possible and I am as determined as ever. I believe first that the project of a people does not die. It is the project of freedom for a people, it is a project of sovereignty. And since the nation exists, it has the right to its own state. I will work to advance it in that direction"

Pauline Marois, Politician

"After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country"

Patti Davis, Celebrity

"The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved, which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power"

Norman Thomas, Activist

"I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"I regard the endorsement of both the objective and a method - which can differ from one country to another - of democratization by the parties in the region as a basic requisite of democratization in the Middle East"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"We want a country. And we will get it, our country"

Pauline Marois, Politician

"I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement"

Jill Clayburgh, Actress

"Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf"

Jan Schakowsky, Politician

"I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement"

Dick Armey, Politician

"All of North Korea is a jail"

Kim Y. Sam, Writer

"What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations"

Harry A. Blackmun, Judge

"I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American"

Judy Holliday, Actress

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