Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years"

Sibel Edmonds, Public Servant

"Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup"

Orhan Pamuk, Novelist

"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean, the poor"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"We have for the past year, and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"In the democratic Western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of "freedom", like a bastard brother of reform"

Wyndham Lewis, Author

"The debate about the war seems pretty robust and free. Many publications, from the New Yorker to the Nation, feel perfectly comfortable printing anti-American articles and that's fine. That's what the First Amendment is all about"

Rich Lowry, Editor

"Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists"

Rich Lowry, Editor

"The principle, though, remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized"

Steve Allen, Entertainer

"Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions, and therefore don't come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"You can certainly keep a low public profile if you want to"

Rosamund Pike, Actress

"After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say, if you are engaging in speech over the Internet, you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet!"

John Doolittle, Politician

"Hosni Mubarak... His constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?"

Francis Wright, Activist

"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government, and try to block them"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants"

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the Tea Party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country"

Jeff Sessions, Politician

"I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp"

Akshay Kumar, Actor

"For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them"

Charles Edison, Businessman

"The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people"

Walter Ulbricht, Politician

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