Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere"

Flora Lewis, Journalist

"Freedom begins as we become conscious of it"

Vernon Howard, Author

"Voting is a civic sacrament"

Theodore Hesburgh, Clergyman

"I don't believe in censorship in any form"

Kathryn Bigelow, Director

"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom"

Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady

"These things I believe: that government should butt out"

Lyn Nofziger

"I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable"

Richard Gere, Actor

"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press"

Mike Pence, Politician

"And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them, you can be my ally, you can be my friend, but you cannot call yourself a conservative"

Mike Pence, Politician

"John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy"

Howard Dean, Politician

"The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it"

Saul Williams, Musician

"Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away"

David Allan Coe, Musician

"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives"

Dorothy Thompson, Journalist

"The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want, and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic"

Allen West, Politician

"I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do"

Allen West, Politician

"Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen"

Jeff Cooper, Celebrity

"Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself"

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Author

"We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"As a nation, we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600s. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican"

Marion Berry, Politician

"If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token, they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me"

Link Wray, Musician

"There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"The Democratic Party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore, and the Republican Party is trying to go totally to the right"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom"

Shigeru Yoshida, Politician

"It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"There's something contagious about demanding freedom"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', Respond those who don't want to learn"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground"

Heywood Broun, Journalist

"The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't"

Lyn Nofziger

"He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government"

Lyn Nofziger

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