Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States"

Robert Welch, Writer

"In a democracy, there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority"

Robert Welch, Writer

"And for well over a hundred years, our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction"

Robert Welch, Writer

"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States"

Martin Van Buren, President

"Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not"

Judith Martin, Author

"We're not perfect, but we do have democracy"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world, fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free"

Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer

"If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free"

Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer

"The universe moves in the direction of Liberty"

Michael Novak, Philosopher

"In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny"

Michael Novak, Philosopher

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world"

William Allen White, Editor

"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period"

Ted Nugent, Musician

"Ironically, 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

"Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal"

Michael Novak, Philosopher

"What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"Commercial speech is like obscenity... We can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it"

Jef I. Richards, Professor

"Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"Rushdie is a hostage"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned, and I will not resign"

Hugo Chavez, Statesman

"The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'"

John McCarthy, Politician

"In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting"

Thomas Edward Brown, Poet

"Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out"

John McCarthy, Politician

"The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"All I've done, all my life, is disobey"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

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