Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits"

Plutarch, Philosopher

Plutarch

"Free men have arms; slaves do not"

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"Fear is the foundation of most governments"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

Edward R. Murrow

"No one can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

Edward R. Murrow

"I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada, it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

Wilfrid Laurier

"So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

B. R. Ambedkar

"Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances"

Richard Mentor Johnson, Politician

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"I have been advocating in favor of free markets and against socialism since I was a teenager"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"There is no such thing as part freedom"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

Nelson Mandela

"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

Nelson Mandela

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