Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities, and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"Government cannot be all things to all people"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

"To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states"

George Soros, Businessman

"Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws"

George Soros, Businessman

"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking"

Clement Attlee, Leader

"The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave"

H. Rap Brown, Activist

"I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society"

George Soros, Businessman

"A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy"

George Soros, Businessman

"I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal"

Gary Johnson

"In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

"The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant"

Francis Parker Yockey, Writer

"We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"In the forty years of the People's Republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world"

Bill Owens, Politician

"The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic"

George Soros, Businessman

"Really, it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security"

Bill Owens, Politician

"The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq"

Bill Richardson, Politician

"I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"Unfortunately, what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"I think it's important to vote"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into Western institutions?"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself"

Dick Cavett, Entertainer

"I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution"

Samuel P. Huntington, Sociologist

"The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress"

Ernest Renan, Philosopher

"The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people"

Jacques Maritain, Philosopher

"When the State advances, freedom retreats"

Javier Milei, President

"1/3 of men under 30 haven't had sex in the last year. People don't realize why that's actually one of the biggest issues we face today. It means the foundation of our society is deteriorating"

Alex Hormozi, Entrepreneur

"Well, the first thing is that truth and power, for me, form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define, in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward, as is happening right now as we are speaking"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"To the world, you are America"

Charlton Heston, Actor

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