“I think that there’s going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our democratic rights. And I believe that those who are good Americans would want to see this not happen and that we debate how to find a balance between the public safety and the protection of civil liberties.” ThinkingWantBelieveHappensI BelieveLibertyRightsBalanceCivilizationJudgmentSafetyDemocraticProtectionDebateCivil LibertiesSuspensionPublic SafetyDemocratic Rights Author:Barbara Lee
“No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!” MenWantLightRunningJoyLibertyLoversThousandProveClaimsDrivenDebateSheepPopeWant UPeasantsShoutingProve It Author:Morris West
“We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.” ShouldWholeTermLibertyDemocracySourceDebateRussiaDefinedUnending Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“There's one America that Barack Obama wants, and there's a very different America that I want. I want an America that is entrepreneurial, that has a strong private sector in which religious faith is respected and even nourished, in which there's vigorous debate across the spectrum, and in which our universities teach real history instead of propaganda. Certainly the decline of America is a choice, though the outcome is not foreordained. But liberty is also a choice, and I'm doing my best to persuade the people of America to make the latter choice.” PeopleDifferentRealChoicesStrongReligiousLibertyTeachDebateBarackPropagandaReligious FaithEntrepreneurial Author:Dinesh D'Souza