Friedrich Ebert Quotes

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

Friedrich Ebert

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Justice

• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Kindness

• Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Looks
  • Insecurities
  • Pour

• We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Commitment

• Freedom is never given; it is won.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Freedom
  • Never
  • Given

• When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • Television

• I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Freedom
  • Lost
  • Opinion

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Stronger

• Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Freedom
  • Gun
  • Empowerment

• Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Freedom
  • Tree
  • Soil

• Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Ethics

• The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Man
  • Law
  • Justice

• All the ousted regimes, as well as the oppressive regimes that have hung on during the Arab Spring, have now blessed Egypt's coup...a blossoming democracy in Cairo can easily spread throughout the Arab world...Those who support freedom and democracy in the Middle East, however, should resist the new tyranny in Cairo with all their might.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Support

• Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Motive

• There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Young
  • Books
  • Laugh

• It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Easier
  • Beats
  • Sticks

• Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

  

  Friedrich Ebert
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Twin