Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal"

Olympia Brown, Activist

"We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation"

George Allen, Politician

"I discovered freedom for the first time in England"

Emperor Hirohito, Royalty

"Let tyrants shake their iron rod"

William Billings, Composer

"All for Australia and the Empire"

Joseph Lyons, Statesman

"There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so"

John Barry, Composer

"Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic"

Judd Gregg, Politician

"Sept. 11 represented a terrorist attack aimed at destroying everything that America stands for - our freedoms and our way of life"

John Whitehead

"Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations"

Guy Verhofstadt, Statesman

"For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make"

Edward Kennedy, Politician

"When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America, I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society"

Bryan Brown, Actor

"Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners"

Robert Bourassa, Politician

"In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States"

Paul Broun, Politician

"I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself"

Moon Unit Zappa, Musician

"What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending initiatives we will ever see in our country. And also, it will take away choice from the American people"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"I need freedom to be happy"

Johnny Weissmuller, Actor

"Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"I've always been in a rebel"

Donnie Yen, Actor

"I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose"

Amanda Holden, Actress

"People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people"

Sydney Schanberg, Journalist

"To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something"

Shel Silverstein, Poet

"P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel"

Johnny Kelly, Musician

"I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something"

Jim Walton, Businessman

"When we acquired California and New- Mexico, this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling and imitation of what others are already doing"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage"

Danny Glover, Actor

"Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to "sit down and shut up" over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people"

Cynthia McKinney, Politician

"This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on"

Jeff Bingaman, Politician

"What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours, but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

"I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed"

Matthew Shipp, Musician

"As long as Florida remains a swing state, Cuban exiles in Florida will remain a very powerful voting bloc"

Joshua A. Tucker, Educator

"The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does"

Tom G. Palmer, Educator

"The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket"

Tom G. Palmer, Educator

"Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people, and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could"

Timothy West, Actor

"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is"

Pat Oliphant, Cartoonist

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