Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy"

Martin Van Buren, President

"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic, it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow"

Robert Welch, Writer

"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees"

Dolores Ibarruri, Politician

"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching"

Roger Nash Baldwin, Activist

"No, I do not identify with the right wing"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work"

Michael Novak, Philosopher

"After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?"

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, Politician

"The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies"

Martin Van Buren, President

"The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people"

Robert Welch, Writer

"It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system"

Robert Welch, Writer

"In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule"

Robert Welch, Writer

"For, in the first place, the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded"

Robert Welch, Writer

"Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: Why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?"

John Hutton, Educator

"The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different"

John McCarthy, Politician

"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off"

Chris Patten, Politician

"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives"

Robert Welch, Writer

"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear"

Thomas W. Higginson, Clergyman

"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity"

Martin Van Buren, President

"We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic"

Robert Welch, Writer

"Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?"

June Jordan, Writer

"Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society"

Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Statesman

"Sovereignty is a word that is used often, but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media"

Linda Tripp, Celebrity

"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy"

Robert Welch, Writer

"We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic"

Michael Novak, Philosopher

"Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it"

Michael Novak, Philosopher

"In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances"

Robert Welch, Writer

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