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freedom rights political
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). Ayn Rand
freedom music
The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic. Kate Bush
freedom sacrifice rights
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for. Clarence Day
freedom democracy reason
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. Blaise Pascal
freedom atheism superstitions
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. Edmund Burke
freedom sacrifice men
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. Bruce Barton
freedom rights discovery
What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom? Edward Abbey
freedom self support
The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
freedom side
I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline. Jake Gyllenhaal
government iranian minister prime
No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government. Abdul Reeki
government investment likely money wants
The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors. Greg Potter
government hand others seize together
Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity, Bill Frist
government role steer work
The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us. Joe Lhota
government supposed
I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do. Susan Goldstein
government political humanity
Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State. Benito Mussolini
government people accountability
Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money. Jane Jacobs
government
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable. Elfriede Jelinek
government numbers long
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate. Benjamin Disraeli
democracy leading role
role as the leading upholder of democracy and law. Madeline Albright
democracy today constitution
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. Barbara Jordan
democracy never-forget vote
Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted. Al Gore
democracy elitist group motions
Is the Philippines a real democracy or just an elitist group going through the motions of democracy? Robert Broadfoot
democracy succeed
We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency. Dick Cheney
democracy culture world
The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread. Adolf Hitler
democracy burning hussein
Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy. Ann Coulter
democracy form fortunes great remain rich wealth
What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. Alexis de Tocqueville
democracy wicked defeat
Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy. Dwight D. Eisenhower