Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"I've always had trouble with authority"

John Milius, Director

"People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church"

Tom DeLay, Politician

"As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy"

Norman Granz, Musician

"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is utopian; and so cynical that the only utopia we can believe in is authoritarian"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street"

James H. Douglas, Politician

"It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state"

J. Reuben Clark, Clergyman

"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"When I first came to the United States in 1956, I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms"

Harold Evans, Journalist

"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea"

Sarah Vowell, Author

"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open"

Gunter Grass, Author

"Freedom requires no effort to enjoy, but requires heroic efforts to preserve"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary"

Wilhelm von Humboldt, Educator

"The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised"

John C. Calhoun, Statesman

"It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty"

John C. Calhoun, Statesman

"In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"Now, since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future"

Lajos Kossuth, Lawyer

"The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms"

Zebulon Pike, Soldier

"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion"

John Paul Stevens, Judge

"The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race"

J. Reuben Clark, Clergyman

"I felt really free, like I could do anything, because no one would know what to expect"

Joshua Homme, Musician

"So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition"

William Kirby, Scientist

"And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that"

William Kirby, Scientist

"This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands"

Tavis Smiley, Author

"At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well"

Robert Trout, Journalist

"We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people"

Luke Scott, Athlete

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