Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something"

Bobby Sands, Activist

"It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed"

John Tillotson, Theologian

"This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing"

Joe Lieberman, Politician

"Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"Free men are the strongest men"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals"

John Avlon, Writer

"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people"

Noah Webster, Writer

"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well"

William Weld, Politician

"There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live"

Rip Torn, Actor

"I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"For now, more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era"

Ken Follett, Author

"When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility"

Jacques Delors, Economist

"Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government"

William Weld, Politician

"I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions"

Susan Sarandon, Actress

"A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law"

Kurt Huber, Professor

"It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe"

Joe Lieberman, Politician

"To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished"

Jacques Delors, Economist

"I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness"

Lawrence Summers, Economist

"I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms"

Robert Reich, Economist

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