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

• I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I espoused human rights in its broadest definition, not only freedom of speech but freedom of assembly, freedom of worship and trial by jury but also the right of people for people to have a decent home to live, food to eat, employment, healthcare, self respect, dignity. So I think the broad gamut of human rights, peace and freedom. I would like to be remembered for those things to the degree that I deserve it and I still have a long way to go.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• Kobe Bryant has always been my favorite player, and he was drafted No. 13, too, in 1996.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Always
  • Player
  • Favorite

• I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • People
  • Think
  • Enjoyed

• We were against oppression, and then we elevated our struggle to demand our rights. We will go against all the dictators, and not only Saleh in Yemen, so we can spread peace.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Peace
  • Struggle

• Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

  

  Friedrich Ebert
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Twin