Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather"

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer

"We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose"

Harry Browne, Writer

"I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates"

Francine Busby, Politician

"We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free"

Harry Browne, Writer

"The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us"

Lisa Murkowski, Politician

"There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants"

Harry Browne, Writer

"We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country"

Vicente Fox, Statesman

"Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship"

George F. Kennan, Historian

"Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"We can afford no liberties with liberty itself"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

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