James H. Douglas, Jr. Quotes

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

James H. Douglas, Jr.

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• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Different
  • Freedom
  • Take

• I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Black
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

  

  Ralph Bellamy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Country

• 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

• Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Perfect

• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Love
  • America
  • Freedom

• Freedom is living without chains.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Freedom
  • Living
  • Chains

• 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

• I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

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

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Freedom
  • Tree
  • Soil

• I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Find
  • River
  • Rowing

• I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Want
  • Freedom

• When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Love
  • Freedom

• The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Song
  • Cool
  • Guitar

• Noble souls, whose brightness the greed of fortune cannot dim, have a kingly something, which urges them to contend on equal footing with persons of the most massive dignity and pits freedom of speech against arrogance.

  

  Philo
  • Freedom
  • Greed

• Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

  

  Jill Clayburgh
  • Character
  • Help

• Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Health
  • Ideas

• I'm inspired by people who are unapologetically themselves, from Bill Cosby to Fahim Anwar. Just funny people.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • People
  • Funny
  • Inspired

• It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Wish
  • Destiny

• Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

  

  James H. Douglas, Jr.
  • Freedom