Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem"

Bob Barr, Politician

"I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem"

Tim Scott, Politician

"The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government"

Amy Goodman, Journalist

Amy Goodman

"Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights, and a strong defense"

Richard Scaife, Businessman

Richard Scaife

"By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty"

Samuel Chase, Judge

Samuel Chase

"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death"

Michel Aoun, Soldier

"You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live"

Donald Kagan, Historian

"It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation"

Lord John Russell, Politician

"When we lose our liberties, it does not happen in one dramatic moment, but gradually and quietly"

John E. Moss, Politician

"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"And I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech, and individual members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech"

Ron Davies, Politician

"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has"

Randolph Bourne, Writer

"Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective"

Paul Biya, Statesman

"Ladies and gentlemen, God bless America - land of the free, home of the brave"

Dave Grohl, Musician

Dave Grohl

"I am a rank individualist"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few years with the Republicans and Democrats, when they were trying to grow government and have spending, and we weren't focusing on creating jobs and get our private sector growing again, I think that's when people started to wake up"

Ben Quayle, Politician

"I'll answer to none but the King himself"

Thomas Blood, Soldier

"While it might be aspirational, especially for freedom-loving people like me, to believe that America - the greatest and freest nation of all time - should welcome all those who wish to enter so that they might enjoy the gifts of this land, it simply isn't pragmatic"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"The calculus is simple: Trump wants more freedom; Lockdown Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., want less"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"We have been indoctrinated to see the world through a politically correct lens"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"One of the most horrifying and surprising evolutions we have witnessed among our widespread campus network is the rapid movement away from tolerating opposing ideas and respectful debate to the deployment of obscene bully tactics from the left"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"None but ourselves can free our minds"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"All government, of course, is against liberty"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

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