Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"American is the first democratic nation-state"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"The state is not abolished, it withers away"

Friedrich Engels, Philosopher

"If we are not free, no one will respect us"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right--it lies in rejecting conventional political categories"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there"

Drew Carey, Actor

"In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly"

Hugo Black, Judge

"If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector"

Henry Hazlitt, Philosopher

"We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"The state can be, and has often been, in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions, on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"I have a bit of a rebellious nature"

John Cusack, Actor

"One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated, and they understand that they've been liberated"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech"

James L. Buckley, Politician

"The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom, the State as such ceases to exist"

Friedrich Engels, Philosopher

"Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy"

Alfred E. Smith, Politician

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