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"I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it"
Shirley MacLaine, Actress
"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most!"
Walter Lippmann, Journalist
"There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order"
William E. Gladstone, Leader
"It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day"
Brad Henry, Politician
"The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices"
Bill Bradley, Politician
"No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government"
Brad Henry, Politician
"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station"
Abbie Hoffman, Activist
"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse"
Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader
"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance"
Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader
"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent"
Nicolas Chamfort, Writer
"Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?"
Nicolas Chamfort, Writer
"The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths"
Clare Boothe Luce, Dramatist
"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free"
Martin Yan, Celebrity
"Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo"
J. Edgar Hoover, Public Servant
"Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands"
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author
"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure"
Karl Popper, Philosopher
"I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God"
Susan B. Anthony, Activist
"To some degree, it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense"
William J. Clinton, President
"American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted"
William J. Clinton, President
"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media"
Noam Chomsky, Activist
"I am in support of the NRA position on gun control"
William J. Clinton, President
"The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all"
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author
"Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic"
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author
"There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them"
Daniel Keys Moran, Writer
"Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps"
Sitting Bull, Statesman
"The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves"
Yoko Ono, Artist
"The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!"
Robert Peel, Leader
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head"
Jean Cocteau, Director
"The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them"
Christian Lous Lange, Politician
"Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling"
Christian Lous Lange, Politician
"For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic"
Christian Lous Lange, Politician
"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances"
Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist
"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast"
Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist
"I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty"
Phaedrus, Poet
"We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders"
Dennis Weaver, Actor
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