Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"It is true you cannot eat freedom, and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship"

Corazon Aquino, President

Corazon Aquino

"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny, and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies government"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

B. R. Ambedkar

"The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss"

Max Stirner, Philosopher

"Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism"

Vladimir Putin, President

Vladimir Putin

"Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of Republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush"

James Bovard, Author

"Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

John Perry Barlow

"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice"

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered"

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters"

Henry Clay, Statesman

Henry Clay

"If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away"

Stephen Harper, Politician

Stephen Harper

"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders"

Stephen Harper, Politician

Stephen Harper

"Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope"

Mick Jagger, Musician

Mick Jagger

"Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?"

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Poet

"All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism"

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Economist

"Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

Tom Clancy

"I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person"

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Writer

"When shopping was still connected to the street, it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"Above all, we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind"

William Godwin, Writer

"The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

Harold Pinter

"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master"

Brigham Young, Leader

Brigham Young

"Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

William Jennings Bryan

"The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them"

Marco Rubio, Politician

Marco Rubio

"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance"

John Philpot Curran, Public Servant

"For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

Anna Quindlen

"If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict"

Raquel Welch, Actress

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