Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others"

William Allen White, Editor

"Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say, let the Commonwealth go"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum"

William Weld, Politician

"The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

"Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"Let them be reassured: it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"Micro managing anything is not a great role for government"

William Weld, Politician

"The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state"

William Scranton, Politician

"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state"

Felix Adler, Educator

"A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know"

George Wald, Scientist

"Creating a nation requires the will of the people!"

Edmund Barton, Politician

"For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time"

George Sutherland, Judge

"Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"I refuse to be silenced"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own"

Chuck Yeager, Aviator

"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"In the latter half of the last century, the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict"

Chen Ning Yang, Physicist

"Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely, but it's sweet"

Melissa Etheridge, Musician

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone"

Leonard Peltier, Activist

"Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy"

Mary Catherine Bateson, Scientist

"Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents"

William J. Brennan, Judge

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