Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allison Davis

He lives in those of us who work hard to fulfill his mission of equality and opportunity. For all of us, he is very much alive.

Lakhdar Brahimi

What we have learned from that struggle is the importance of freedom, the importance of mobilization, the importance of justice, equality, and so on.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Woodrow Wilson

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Will Rogers

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Voltaire

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

Rufus Choate

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

William J. Brennan

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

William J. Clinton

I can spend your money better than you can.

William J. Clinton

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Will Durant

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Will Durant

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Robert Nozick

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.

L. Lionel Kendrick

The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

Roger Powell

He's a star player, but he's down to earth and he's very receptive to the young guys, ... He talks to us. He encourages us, gives us compliments, gives us positive criticism. He's been great.

Chief Seattle

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Rube Goldberg

And, uh, I did that, and there was nothing more ridiculous to me than finding the weight of the earth because I didn't care how much the earth weighed.

Woody Harrelson

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Robin Ince

Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.

Zosia Mamet

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.

Yuri Gagarin

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.