Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place"

Frederic Bastiat, Economist

"I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"Liberty has restraints but no frontiers"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics!"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial, is not freedom"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together, I suppose"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"I know not what others may choose, but, as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined!"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Fear is the passion of slaves"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide"

Rebecca West, Author

"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears"

Rebecca West, Author

"In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith"

Maggie Gallagher, Writer

"With a library, you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men, and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture, and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

Edmund Spenser, Poet

"Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

"If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region"

Khaleda Zia, Statesman

"No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics"

Evander Holyfield, Athlete

"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to"

Jane Elliot, Actress

"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"We are revolutionaries"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

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