Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values.
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.
In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
I have three older sisters, so we were a reasonably large family and, in general, a happy one.
I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining.
