Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad"

James Madison, President

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare"

James Madison, President

"Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere"

James Madison, President

"Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic"

James Madison, President

"And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together"

James Madison, President

"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best, most natural defense of a free country"

James Madison, President

"A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States"

James Madison, President

"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person"

James Madison, President

"A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them"

James Madison, President

"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression"

James Madison, President

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse"

James Madison, President

"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government"

James Madison, President

"In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people"

James Madison, President

"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself"

James Madison, President

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations"

James Madison, President

"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"A forest bird never wants a cage"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

""One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it", merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it""

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens, and real diseases are useful material"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"There is no fire like passionNo crime like hatred,No sorrow like separation,No sickness like hunger,And no joy like the joy of freedom"

Buddha, Leader

"No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free"

Buddha, Leader

"I am my own woman"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true"

George W. Bush, President

"We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons"

George W. Bush, President

"The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend"

George W. Bush, President

"The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them"

George W. Bush, President

"I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way"

George W. Bush, President

"This young century will be liberty's century"

George W. Bush, President

"I wish that every human life might be pure, transparent freedom"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

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