Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people"

Alexander Mackenzie, Statesman

"You can never conquer us, we will die first"

Benjamin F. Wade, Politician

"More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close"

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Statesman

"I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone"

Arthur Scargill, Politician

"The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here"

Paul Kurtz, Philosopher

"God requireth not a uniformity of religion"

Roger Williams, Theologian

"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"So every day, I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'"

Robin Quivers, Celebrity

"We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world"

Bernhard von Bulow, Statesman

"For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy"

Bernhard von Bulow, Statesman

"The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom"

Silvio Berlusconi, Statesman

"Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world"

Silvio Berlusconi, Statesman

"There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy, and a certain amount of it to be public access"

Montel Williams, Entertainer

"Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back"

Morning Star, Statesman

"I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here"

Morning Star, Statesman

"You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

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