Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the Constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country"

John Acton, Historian

"I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

"I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society"

Rocco Buttiglione, Politician

"We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama"

Tim Pawlenty, Politician

"Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone"

Milos Forman, Director

"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything: what this person says or how this person thinks, you know"

Milos Forman, Director

"I have opposed the Communist Cold War line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence"

Earl Browder, Activist

"A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them"

Mark Thomas, Comedian

"We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

"For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

"Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom"

Milos Forman, Director

"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other, the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition"

John Acton, Historian

"When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"If I can feel freedom, then I can create"

Marc Newson, Designer

"I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability"

Joanna Lumley, Actress

"Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?"

Tim Pawlenty, Politician

"There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"I had always broken the rules"

Lauren Hutton, Model

"It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards"

Ron Davies, Politician

"If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom"

Ernestine L. Rose, Activist

"Well, I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy"

Ron Davies, Politician

"The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts, whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject"

John Jay Hooker, Businessman

"Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision"

James P. Hoffa, Businessman

"I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus"

Robert Casey, Politician

"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it"

Martha Gellhorn, Journalist

"In fact, - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party, and certainly liberal in their philosophy"

Pat Boone, Musician

"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship, disappears from man"

Milos Forman, Director

"If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

"In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest"

Martha Smith, Actress

"We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act"

Don Young, Politician

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