Free Country Quotes - Page 2

• This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Country, Humor

  Peter Ustinov (2002). “Romanoff and Juliet”, p.22, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to.

  Roseanne Barr

  Country, Adults, Want

  "Barr tells 'The Doctors' to legalize it" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. October 24, 2012.

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• If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.

  Simon Jenkins

  Christian, Country, Baby

  "The marriage of church and state is anything but gay" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

  E. B. White

  Country, Attention, Pay

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.139, Cornell University Press

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• I do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of natural-born women, but today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe it’s a free country.

  Olivia Culpo

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Miss USA 2012: Miss Rhode Island Takes the Crown" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Hate, Party

  "Communist Party v. SACB, 367 U.S. 1". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 5, 1961.

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• Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Government, Law

  "Der Weg zur Knechtschaft (The Road to Serfdom)". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, reason.com. 1944.

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• I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.

  Dionne Warwick

  Country, Stress, Past

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• Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Two, Obamacare

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Expression, Law

  'Don't allow religious hooligans to dictate terms' by Dina Vakil, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. January 16, 2008.

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• If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Ifs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.

  James Green

  Country, Expression, Important

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• For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.

  Al Gore

  Country, Reform, Wealth

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• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.

  William Ellery Channing

  Country, Peace, War

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• Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Liberty, Desert

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.25, Fordham Univ Press

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• In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Freedom, Men

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• No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

  James Madison

  Country, Freedom, Party

  James Madison (1840). “The Papers of James Madison: Purchased by Order of the Congress, Being His Correspondence and Reports of Debates During the Congress of the Confederation, and His Reports of Debates in the Federal Convention; Now Published from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”

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• This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.

  Simon Heffer

  Country, Freedom, Lying

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• Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Country, Memorable

  Annie Besant (1913). “Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform”

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• The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people.

  Joseph Story

  Country, Military, Mean

  Joseph Story (2012). “A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof : Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers : with an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the Constitution”, p.265, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.

  Charley Reese

  Country, Gun, Government

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• There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Men, Liberty

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.345, New Word City

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• Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Peace, War

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.35, Penguin

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• What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Liberty, Citizens

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “The Subjection of Women ... Third Edition”, p.180

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• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  Harry Browne

  Country, People, Going Out

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