Free Country Quotes - Page 4

I've made it clear in my reporting that we need a rational, effective and humane system. I don't support amnesty, and for that reason amnesty groups attack me. That's fine, it's a free country. Their attacks don't give me too much concern.

Lou Dobbs

Country, Giving, Support

"Fox Business Network's Lou Dobbs Says Candy Crowley 'Took Over' Debate (Q&A)". Interview with Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 21, 2012.

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Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

Margaret Thatcher

Country, Deep Love, Order

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In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

J. Norman Collie

Country, Freedom, Men

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Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires a self-reliant people. A free country requires people who value liberty more than money.

Charley Reese

Country, Government, Self

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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

Margaret Atwood

Country, Choices, Want

FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 27, 2016

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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.

Henry David Thoreau

Country, Mistake, Ignorance

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.156, Penguin

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Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.

Hugo Chavez

Country, Iran, Venezuela

"Hugo Chávez grants rare interview to western media" by Stephen Sackur, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2010.

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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

E. B. White

Country, Design, Attention

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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No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown.

Vladimir Nabokov

Country, Writing, Past

Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.314, Vintage

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The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

William Ellery Channing

Country, Peace, War

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Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

Thomas Paine

Country, Kings, Government

Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.32, Penguin

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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

Charles Horton Cooley

Country, Hands, Class

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.137, Transaction Publishers

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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

James Madison

Country, People, Liberty

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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

Salman Rushdie

Country, Important, Trying

"The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.com. August/September 2005.

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For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!

Bill Watterson

Country, Who I Am, People

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In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these arrests. So for example, the Townhouse Gallery - the outreach director gave an interview to Ahram Online, which is a semi-official news agency here. And he sort of dismissed it, played it down. But the publisher from the publishing house - the Merit Publishing House, which was raided - he said this won't scare us; we will continue to dream of a free country, a country with social justice, and this won't silence us.

Leila Fadel

Dream, Country, Agency

"Egypt Expands Crackdown On Freedom Of Expression, Advocates Say". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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