#freed

Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad. ↗

— Conrad Burns

#alert #before #brave #freedom #gone

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

— Harold Evans

#fell #first #freedoms #i #love

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society with unlimited rights is incapable of standing to adversity. If we do not wish to be ruled by a coercive authority, then each of us must rein himself in...A stable society is achieved not by balancing opposing forces but by conscious self-limitation: by the principle that we are always duty-bound to defer to the sense of moral justice. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#human-rights #limitations #personal-autonomy #personal-responsibility #freedom

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future. ↗

— Charlie Dent

#always #enjoy #freedom #future #holocaust

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#cells #democracy #dictatorship #eat #freedom

If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#concept #defense #form #freedom #grasp

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg. ↗

— Gresham Barrett

#egg #freedom #more #nest #nest egg

To silence criticism is to silence freedom. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#freedom #silence

No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#loyalty #responsiblity #freedom

While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#coalition #exactly #fact #free #freed