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"Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us"
Theodor Herzl, Journalist
"When it comes to combating imperialism, we are all Stalinists"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
"It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine, and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable"
Theodor Herzl, Journalist
"Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation"
Theodor Herzl, Journalist
"Revolutions are not made for export"
Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman
"Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it"
Germaine Greer, Activist
"My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism"
Andre Malraux, Author
"The history of liberty is a history of resistance"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty"
Woodrow Wilson, Politician
"No man is good enough to be another's master"
William Morris, Designer
"The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare, but freedom from care and worry"
James Truslow Adams, Historian
"No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily"
Andre Breton, Poet
"There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself"
Andre Breton, Poet
"We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping"
Doug Coupland, Author
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven"
John Milton, Poet
"When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for"
John Milton, Poet
"I love my government, not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone"
John Updike, Novelist
"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive!"
John W. Gardner, Educator
"A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population"
Jock Sturges, Photographer
"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty"
Louis D. Brandeis, Judge
"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent"
Louis D. Brandeis, Judge
"Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans"
Barbara Jordan, Politician
"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears"
Louis D. Brandeis, Judge
"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered"
Louis D. Brandeis, Judge
"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever"
J. Michael Straczynski, Producer
"I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'"
Nikki Giovanni, Poet
"Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989"
Nadia Comaneci, Athlete
"Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself"
Ken Kesey, Author
"I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves"
Tadao Ando, Architect
"No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies"
Dean Acheson, Statesman
"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne"
Georges Clemenceau, Leader
"What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance"
Barbara Jordan, Politician
"Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable"
Barbara Jordan, Politician
"Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party"
Barbara Jordan, Politician
"There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals, and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision"
Barbara Jordan, Politician
"A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation"
Barbara Jordan, Politician
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