Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"Slavery and freedom cannot exist together"

Ernestine L. Rose, Activist

"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die"

Mary Antin, Activist

"While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest to invalidate the law of nature and reason in order to establish systems incompatible therewith"

Ethan Allen, Revolutionary

"Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship"

William Blum, Author

"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion"

John Acton, Historian

"The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody"

Joanna Lumley, Actress

"Free Tibet before free trade"

Zhu Rongji, Statesman

"But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal"

Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman

"Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship"

Julian Assange, Activist

"Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub"

Grover Norquist, Politician

"The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub"

Grover Norquist, Politician

"Taxation without representation is tyranny"

James Otis, Lawyer

"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians"

David Brinkley, Journalist

"Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them?"

Harold Ford, Politician

"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air"

Henry Anatole Grunwald, Editor

"This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see"

Angela Bassett, Actress

"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one"

A. J. Liebling, Journalist

"Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"I was born a crime"

Trevor Noah, Comedian

"Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you"

Charles Evers, Activist

"They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade"

John Paul Stevens, Judge

"I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security"

Michael Hayden, Public Servant

"It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East"

Silvan Shalom, Politician

"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty"

Fisher Ames, Statesman

"The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters"

George William Norris, Politician

"Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive"

Auberon Herbert, Philosopher

"In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized"

Alex Grey, Artist

"These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties"

Jean Moulin, Activist

"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

"They're not going to get me"

John Dillinger, Criminal

"Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve"

Tammy Baldwin, Politician

"The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy"

Juan Williams, Journalist

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

Donald Kagan, Historian

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