Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties"

William Weld, Politician

"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration"

Robert Reich, Economist

"On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman"

Junius, Writer

"We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives"

Robert Reich, Economist

"We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan"

Gary Johnson

"All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers"

James Callaghan, Leader

"It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade"

Henry Lawson, Writer

"When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity"

Gerry Adams, Politician

"It will take years to bring Iraq the democracy it deserves"

Bill Owens, Politician

"My grandfather in 1848 had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it"

Gary Johnson

"I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?"

Salmon P. Chase, Politician

"Within the last three years, the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents"

Hodding Carter, Journalist

"Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance"

Zoe Saldana, Actor

"It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"We are a strong democratic country"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you. Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"The First Amendment means everything to me"

Julian Bond, Activist

"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon"

Bobby Sands, Activist

"The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain"

George McGovern, Politician

"It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea"

William Weld, Politician

"The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him"

Salmon P. Chase, Politician

"The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property"

Salmon P. Chase, Politician

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