#freedom

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#american dream #been #dream #federal #federal government

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democratic #democratic country #endanger #fail #freedom

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#american #american public #been #believe #best

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick. ↗

— Richard Trumka

#affordable #care #court #dies #freedom

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#fear #freedom #stronger #than #tyranny

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point. ↗

— Abdoulaye Wade

#democracy #edifice #freedom #like #point

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#centuries #chance #cry #emerge #freedoms

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#case #comes #day #eastern #equal

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#bush #congress #democracy #expansion #freedom

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#events #foreign #foreign policy #freedoms #furthers