We Get It, You're From Texas

Parts of Texas look like Kansas with a goiter. - Unknown

The best road to progress is freedom's road. - John F Kennedy

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. - Dwight D Eisenhower

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. - Edward R. Murrow

I greet you in the name of peace, democracy, and freedom. - Nelson Mandela

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. - Thomas Campbell

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. - J Paul Getty

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. - Anita Brookner

How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them. - Groucho Marx

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. - George Carlin

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. - Jessica Savitch

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. - Robert Wilson

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. - Sam Houston

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? - Kinky Friedman

Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with. - Jensen Ackles

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity. - Kay R. Jamison

Freedom rings when you realize you can become what you never thought you could become. - Richie Norton

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America. - Jimmy Carter

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom. - Gloria Steinem

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. - Bob Marley

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. - Marshall Lumsden

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking? - John Gunther

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. - Franklin P Adams

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights. - Ziggy Marley

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. - Willie Nelson

The trouble with our laws these days is that the criminals know their rights better than their wrongs. - Unknown

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. - Carroll Shelby

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. - Zell Miller

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. - John Wooden

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. - Rollo May

If women want any rights more than they got, why don't they just take them and not be talking about it? - Sojourner Truth

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. - Sigmund Freud

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - Bertrand Russell

Don't let the age on your driver's license determine your season in life. Everyone's growing seasons look a bit different. - Vicki Kuyper

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy

Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. - Bill Maher