Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

"We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders"

Tom Tancredo, Politician

"I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist"

Dinesh D'Souza, Author

"If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then"

John Linder, Politician

"Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off"

Richard King, Director

"I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than"

Mark Knopfler, Musician

"Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

"We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil"

Jon Corzine, Politician

"Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world"

Bill Frist, Politician

"In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain"

Frederica Montseny, Politician

"In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas"

Alfred Whitney Griswold, Educator

"That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid reaffirmation of American exceptionalism"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the Tea Party looked around and suddenly realized there are more of us than there are of them"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"If you're not brave, you're not going to be free"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy"

Roger Tory Peterson, Environmentalist

"Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"We built Palantir for the West. We built it for liberal democracy"

Alex Karp, Businessman

"That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier"

Frederick Jackson Turner, Historian

"Democratic exit is not achieved by changing one man; it requires combating a system"

Maria Corina Machado, Politician

"When sovereign will is disrespected, citizen resistance is the path to defend the Constitution"

Maria Corina Machado, Politician

"Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go"

Hazel Scott, Musician

"A man's house is his castle"

James Otis, Lawyer

"Liberty is the prevention of control by others"

John Acton, Historian

"No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved"

Kate Beckinsale, Actress

"I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe"

Ed Harris, Actor

"If you have an opportunity to use your voice, you should use it"

Samuel L. Jackson, Actor

"I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those Second Amendment rights"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns"

Arlen Specter, Politician

"Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion"

Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer

"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections"

Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer

"Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest"

Oliver Tambo, Politician

"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

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