Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"You must stand for free speech in the streets"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Our flag represents every American, and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people"

James Monroe, President

"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't"

Byron Dorgan, Politician

"The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress"

Helene Deutsch, Psychologist

"My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"Think for yourself and question authority"

Timothy Leary, Educator

"I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them"

Brian Herbert, Author

"I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government"

Mackenzie King, Statesman

"As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything"

Pierre Beaumarchais, Inventor

"Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes"

Paul Samuelson, Economist

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