Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"I'm tired of being considered property"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please"

Mother Jones, Activist

"Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence"

David Ben-Gurion, Statesman

"There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million"

David Ben-Gurion, Statesman

"We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen"

Warren E. Burger, Judge

"You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe"

Stephen F. Lynch, Politician

"Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act"

Ferdinand Lassalle, Politician

"In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture"

Mos Def, Musician

"In America, it's live by the sword of freedom of expression, and be will to die by it as well"

Vince McMahon, Entertainer

"I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

"Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

"So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum"

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

"Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society"

Peter Kropotkin, Revolutionary

"We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here!"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr. Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier"

Theodore White, Journalist

"I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!"

Mother Jones, Activist

"Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence"

Norman O. Brown, Philosopher

"I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

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