Quotes About Freedom

I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

Let Catholics build their own churches and works.

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler.

The armed citizen made America free, and the armed citizen will keep America free!

I think we should all be proud that we are living in a country where we can question those we put in power because, at the end of the day, they work for every citizen.

I think most women do not want to be treated as sort of a special class of citizen.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

The question of what actually caused the Civil War is secondary to the result of the Civil War, which is that after the war was over, slavery was ended, and the North and the South reconciled. And I think we need to respect that.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

My whole thing is I'm not into civilization as a whole.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.

The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we're asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code?

Right before I jumped out of a plane, I knew what Superman felt like.