Justin Amash Quotes

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

Justin Amash

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• Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Forward

• There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Fall
  • Slavery

• Romanticism, like the Rousseauist Swinging Sixties, misunderstands the Dionysian as the pleasure principle, when it is in fact the gross continuum of pleasure-pain. Worshiping nature and seeking political and sexual freedom, Romanticism ends in imaginative entrammelment of every kind. Perfect freedom is intolerable and therefore impossible.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Political
  • Freedom

• After seven years of marriage,He wanted out.Now after seven months of freedom,It's clear that there's no doubt.She's gonna make it,And he never will.He's at the foot of the mountain,And she's over that hill.He's sinkin' at sea,And her sails are filled.She's gonna make it,And he never will.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • She
  • Freedom
  • Marriage

• The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • World
  • Culture
  • Freedom

• Before BLM, there was a dormancy in our black freedom movement. Obviously many of us were doing work, but we've been able to reignite a whole entire new generation, not just inside the U.S. but across the globe, centering black people and centering the fight against white supremacy.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Work
  • Black

• The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

  

  James Truslow Adams
  • Freedom
  • Worry

• The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

  

  Max Lerner
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Competition

• We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier.

  

  Mark McGrath Sugar Ray
  • Up
  • Freedom

• Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • Age
  • Freedom

• It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

  

  David Boies
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Freedom

• Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

  

  Charlie Dent
  • May
  • America
  • Freedom

• President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • World
  • Freedom

• Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • May
  • Freedom

• Just because you are famous and rich doesn't make you successful.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Famous
  • Successful

• Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art.

  

  Peter Storey
  • Art
  • Player
  • Dying

• If a retainer will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too is but a single day.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Up
  • Work
  • Single

• The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Leader
  • Fountain

• I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

  

  Justin Amash
  • Freedom
  • Constitution
  • Principles