Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"But to say that Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill"

Laura Ingraham, Celebrity

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them"

Richard Henry Lee, Politician

"The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer"

Duff Green, Politician

"Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations"

Jim DeMint, Politician

"I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more"

Claire McCaskill, Politician

"A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason or tempered with kindness"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people"

John Drinkwater, Poet

"You can keep a person locked up too long"

Gary Gilmore, Criminal

"The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection"

Butler Shaffer, Writer

"We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible, and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free"

Michael Enzi, Politician

"The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong"

William Randolph, Politician

"Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government"

Gerald F. Lieberman, Writer

"The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen, and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy, and this is what today is all about"

Barbara Lee, Politician

"And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is"

John Barbour, Poet

"I don't want to hear again from the Attorney General or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care"

Russ Feingold, Politician

"The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut"

David Obey, Politician

"Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live"

Mick Mars, Musician

"It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information"

Sherman Austin, Activist

"If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty"

Anna Howard Shaw, Activist

"Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise, has always been the American way"

Donald L. Carcieri, Politician

"It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race"

John Murray

"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one"

Jean-Marie Messier, Businessman

"Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows"

Henry Charles Carey, Economist

"We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation"

Rosie O'Donnell, Comedian

"I defend people's right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself"

Rick Boucher, Politician

"The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss"

Tammy Bruce, Author

"And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue!"

Zach Wamp, Politician

"We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"I wish to express my hope that the efforts of our nations, nationalities and peoples in the direction of the development of our democratic order will be successful"

Girma Woldegiorgis, Statesman

"When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority"

Tom Daschle, Politician

"When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd"

Mark E. Hyman, Celebrity

"I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government"

Joe Wilson, Politician

"I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system"

Meg White, Musician

"The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss"

George Reisman, Economist

"We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence"

Stephen Hadley, Politician

"It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism"

Mark Davis, Writer

"There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous"

Judd Gregg, Politician

"The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes"

Ayatollah Khamenei, Statesman

"There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage"

Joel Barlow, Poet

"Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there"

John Turner, Statesman

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