Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny"

Hugo Black, Judge

"I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated"

Drew Carey, Actor

"The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people"

Hugo Black, Judge

"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell"

Hugo Black, Judge

"Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press!"

Hugo Black, Judge

"There can be no liberty without the law"

Cecil B. DeMille, Producer

"Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"All we ask is to be let alone"

Jefferson Davis, President

"I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"A revolution is not a bed of roses"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs; it was about sexual freedom"

Calvin Klein, Designer

"The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"When you grow up, your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult, you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that"

Diane Arbus, Photographer

"The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech, and stricter gun control"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

"What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us"

Nora Ephron, Author

"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are"

Ben Affleck, Actor

"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"

Marion Barry, Politician

"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds"

Thurgood Marshall, Judge

"I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice"

Lin Yutang, Author

"A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten"

Kemal Ataturk, Soldier

"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know"

Uta Hagen, Actress

"Enslave the liberty of but one human being, and the liberties of the world are put in peril"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"The only security men can have for their political liberty consists in keeping their money in their own pockets"

Lysander Spooner, Philosopher

"That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support"

Lysander Spooner, Philosopher

"We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech"

Boyle Roche, Politician

"I like America to some extent"

Michael Moore, Activist

"We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch"

Thurgood Marshall, Judge

"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor"

Walter Bagehot, Author

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