Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out"

Barbara Deming, Author

"We must remain steadfast in our commitment to our troops, and to those fighting for a free and democratic Iraq because freedom makes our country and the world a safer place"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"What has made America great have been the opportunities given to everyone in this country. Since our founding, individuals and families have come to America to seek freedom, opportunity and the choice for a better life"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land. Legislation is needed to correct this decision and restore the principle of having limited government involvement"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"I want to do what I want, when I want to do it, not be dictated to by audiences"

Dario Argento, Director

"Blind and unwavering, undisciplined at all times, constitutes the real strength of all free men"

Alfred Jarry, Writer

"There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it"

Ron Paul, Politician

"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy"

A. J. Liebling, Journalist

"The essence of a democracy is a free electorate"

Arlen Specter, Politician

"I have found that many other countries will buy off on anything American. As much as they hate us, they want to be us more than anything"

April Winchell, Actress

"For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence, which is what has made our country strong"

Arlen Specter, Politician

"More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international"

Agnes Smedley, Journalist

"You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws"

Ron Paul, Politician

"The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people"

Ron Paul, Politician

"The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence"

Ron Paul, Politician

"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"The Pledge of Allegiance says, "liberty and justice for all""

Patricia Schroeder, Leader

"One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire"

Rick Santorum, Politician

"If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live"

Ron Paul, Politician

"I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas"

Ron Paul, Politician

"I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces"

Ron Paul, Politician

"All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals"

Ron Paul, Politician

"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th Amendment and the IRS"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny"

Frances Wright, Writer

"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery"

Algernon Sydney, Politician

"It's hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force"

Algernon Sydney, Politician

"This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural"

Algernon Sydney, Politician

"I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics"

Roland Joffe, Director

"The general revolt of a nation cannot be called a rebellion"

Algernon Sydney, Politician

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