Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands"

Spiro T. Agnew, Politician

"I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance"

Henry Clay, Statesman

"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present"

Sidney Hook, Philosopher

"Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women"

Jose Marti, Activist

"I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that"

Walter Cronkite, Journalist

"We can demonstrate, by our own example, how E.U. freedoms, including the freedom of nationals of other E.U. countries to come and work here, has enabled us to expand our economy"

John Bruton, Politician

"I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left"

Sid Vicious, Musician

"There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free"

Walter Cronkite, Journalist

"Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice"

Jose Marti, Activist

"The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets. Those who have you, O Liberty, do not know. You. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you"

Jose Marti, Activist

"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together, You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all"

Jose Marti, Activist

"I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"The E.U. is the world's fastest growing democratic body"

John Bruton, Politician

"Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free"

John Bruton, Politician

"The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

"A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the Congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"God himself has no right to be a tyrant"

William Godwin, Writer

"If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada, and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world, inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

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