Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize"

Christine O'Donnell, Politician

"I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost"

J. Reuben Clark, Clergyman

"There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced"

Charles Kennedy, Politician

"Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!"

Omar Torrijos Herrera, Soldier

"Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it"

Howard Mumford Jones, Writer

"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it"

John Hay, Writer

"And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives"

John McHugh, Politician

"A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency"

Peter Fenn, Journalist

"Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism"

Said Musa, Statesman

"I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will"

Paul Thomas Anderson, Director

"It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty"

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?"

Sean Hannity, Writer

"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance, then its membership should be suspended"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again"

Leif Garrett, Musician

"We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas"

John Redwood, Politician

"The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism"

John Blair, Politician

"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom"

Amiri Baraka, Poet

"Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that, unless freedom is universal, it is only extended privilege"

John Edward Christopher Hill, Historian

"You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so"

Edmund S. Muskie, Politician

"Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means"

Anthony Eden, Politician

"Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good"

Adrian Cronauer, Entertainer

"We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that"

Buenaventura Durruti, Revolutionary

"We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life"

Johann Most, Revolutionary

"I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty"

Francois Guizot, Historian

"A state is not a state if it belongs to one man"

Sophocles, Author

"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world"

Mark Twain, Author

"Americans needs to understand that the election of Donald Trump has forestalled our slide into the abyss of cultural Marxism, and the surrendering of our national heritage and identity to that of the global community"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

"Having Democrats control both houses of Congress and the White House would be a nightmare"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

"Since the end of WWII, France's steady movement away from Western ideas of individual liberty and self-determination - and toward collectivist action and conformance - has created a people overly dependent on government, hobbled by crippling taxes and lacking in individual initiative"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

"Whenever there has been a debate on the national stage, nobody has had to go looking to find me. I've been there. Always making the argument for free markets, first principles, and limited government"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

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