Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream"

Thomas Francis Meagher, Soldier

"We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right"

Steve Blake, Athlete

"Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU"

Steve Blake, Athlete

"The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States Senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda"

Pete Coors, Businessman

"In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge, it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form"

Marcy Kaptur, Politician

"If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful"

Laura Schlessinger, Writer

"I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows"

Katherine Graham, Publisher

"But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been"

John H. Reagan, Politician

"We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it"

James D'arcy, Actor

"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state"

Isabel Paterson, Journalist

"A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties"

Franklin Pierce, President

"Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves"

Florence E. Allen, Judge

"There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A"

Deana Carter, Musician

"One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought"

Dan Savage, Writer

"The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco"

Rosie O'Donnell, Comedian

"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions"

Michael Beschloss, Historian

"Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not"

Scott Brown, Politician

"They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press"

Mike Rogers, Writer

"Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people"

Larry Craig, Politician

"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in"

Girma Woldegiorgis, Statesman

"The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom"

Gertrude Himmelfarb, Historian

"We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since"

Mark Lloyd, Public Servant

"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to"

Wanda Jackson, Musician

"Your government is no longer mine"

Scott Nearing, Activist

"Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy"

Dave Anderson, Writer

"In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today"

Lincoln Kirstein, Dancer

"The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia"

Martin C. Smith, Writer

"People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent"

Bob Black, Activist

"We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them"

Donald L. Carcieri, Politician

"Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace"

Ahmet Necdet Sezner, President

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