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Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Democracy must learn to defend itself"
Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman
Mikhail Gorbachev
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"The Soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy"
Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman
Mikhail Gorbachev
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"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more"
John Adams, President
John Adams
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"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries"
John Adams, President
John Adams
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"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain"
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer
Mary Wollstonecraft
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"Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things"
Plautus, Playwright
Plautus
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"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
Ralph Nader
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"The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
Charlie Chaplin
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"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So what we view our role as is giving people that power"
Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman
Mark Zuckerberg
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"To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time"
Neil Young, Musician
Neil Young
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"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated"
Neil Young, Musician
Neil Young
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"Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
Ralph Nader
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"Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
Ralph Nader
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"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me, poor bleedin' country"
Edward Abbey, Author
Edward Abbey
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"No emancipation without that of society"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
Theodor Adorno
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"An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
Theodor Adorno
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"We must never forget the sacrifices of our ancestors who fought for our freedom, and we must continue to fight to preserve it"
Alexander Rutskoy, Vice President
Alexander Rutskoy
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"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten"
Indira Gandhi, Statesman
Indira Gandhi
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"The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere"
George Meredith, Novelist
George Meredith
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"No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
Herbert Spencer
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"All socialism involves slavery"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
Herbert Spencer
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"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative"
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
John Kenneth Galbraith
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"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse"
Jules Renard, Dramatist
Jules Renard
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"I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
David Herbert Lawrence
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"Freedom is the only law which genius knows"
James Russell Lowell, Poet
James Russell Lowell
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"We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
David Herbert Lawrence
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"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
David Herbert Lawrence
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"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms: the people who came before you won with such hard knocks"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
David Herbert Lawrence
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"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
Gore Vidal
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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
Gore Vidal
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"We're not a democracy"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
Gore Vidal
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"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions"
George Will, Journalist
George Will
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"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it"
George Will, Journalist
George Will
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"The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them"
John McCain, Politician
John McCain
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"But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago"
John McCain, Politician
John McCain
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"Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions"
John McCain, Politician
John McCain
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"Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice"
John McCain, Politician
John McCain
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"Throughout the day, no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever!"
Davy Crockett, Explorer
Davy Crockett
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"Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them"
Davy Crockett, Explorer
Davy Crockett
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"No man may make another free"
Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist
Zora Neale Hurston
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