Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!"

Graham Norton, Celebrity

"The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought"

Leon Blum, Politician

"Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all"

Sarah Brady, Activist

"The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational"

Roger Mudd, Journalist

"We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny"

Trent Lott, Politician

"Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism"

Sam Shepard, Playwright

"Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia"

Luke Scott, Athlete

"Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have"

Jon Voight, Actor

"We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. So he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy"

Joni Mitchell, Musician

"I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity"

John Hall

"You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself, if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind"

George Woodcock, Writer

"True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion"

Corliss Lamont, Philosopher

"The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise"

Ben Pimlott, Historian

"I don't believe in welfare"

Charles Evers, Activist

"Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them"

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Educator

"Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims"

Juan Williams, Journalist

"To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is"

Miguel Indurain, Athlete

"The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about"

Andrew Eldritch, Musician

"Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form"

Wilhelm von Humboldt, Educator

"An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition"

Nestor Kirchner, Statesman

"This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution"

Mike DeWine, Politician

"I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"It is hard to be an individual in Japan"

Haruki Murakami, Writer

"There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion"

Steve Winwood, Musician

"Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination"

Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher

"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure"

Zell Miller, Politician

"I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way"

Christine McVie, Musician

"I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now"

Pierre Laval, Politician

"The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual"

Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher

"It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are"

Walter Matthau, Actor

"While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis"

Trent Lott, Politician

"But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul, and it may exist even when the body is in bondage"

Ralph A. Cram, Architect

"And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation"

Christine O'Donnell, Politician

"We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character"

Luke Scott, Athlete

"The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government"

Mike Huckabee, Politician

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