#freedoms

My feeling about him is that the America that we have today, the freedoms we enjoy and the privileges we have, are really the reflection of Abe Lincoln's convictions, his vision, and his toughness. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#about #america #convictions #enjoy #feeling

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#around #daughters #fighting #freedoms #liberty

The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern. ↗

— Amir Butler

#concern #conflicts #democracy #foreign #freedoms

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#cannot #centuries #defenders #freedoms #granted

There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#age #avarice #became #civic #contributed

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#convictions #deprived #freedoms #never #people

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. ↗

— John Boehner

#enlightenment #fires #freedoms #historic #ideals

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

#been #four #freedoms #hungry #hungry man

We have freedoms and boundaries; we just have a great family life. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#family #family life #freedoms #great #just

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#baby #been #bit #chivalry #freedoms