Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China"

Jung Chang, Writer

"Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong"

John Jay Hooker, Businessman

"The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"The Constitution was about a limitation on power"

Roy Moore, Judge

"And government's only role is to secure our rights for us"

Roy Moore, Judge

"We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"Well, it's not a matter for me to say what Llew Smith can or cannot do, he's an elected Member of Parliament"

Ron Davies, Politician

"The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised"

Ron Davies, Politician

"I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh"

Hanoi Hannah, Celebrity

"Every town has become a border town, and every state has become a border state"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship"

Mark Steyn, Writer

"With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement"

Todd Solondz, Writer

"Now that we have a democracy, and you can go back, and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948"

Simon Raven, Novelist

"We always make the mistake in the United States of America, in Democratic or Republican administrations alike, is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice"

Anne Heche, Actress

"You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers"

Herman Gorter, Poet

"Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows"

Roy Moore, Judge

"The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government"

Roy Moore, Judge

"Power's not what the Constitution was about"

Roy Moore, Judge

"I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"It would bother me if a judge told me how I had to believe"

Roy Moore, Judge

"There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe"

Herman Gorter, Poet

"The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God"

Roy Moore, Judge

"Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain"

Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman

"It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us"

Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman

"We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"From watching the news, one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support our involvement there. Our freedom is contagious, and we helped liberate them"

Jim Bunning, Politician

"The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

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