Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Joseph J. Lhota

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Sam Hunt

Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

Thomas Piketty

I don't live in the Cold War. Some people maybe still live in the Cold War, but this is their problem, not mine.

Carlos Mencia

Going there is paying your dues. You always have to pay your dues. . . . You've just got to do it. Maybe I come from a working family. Maybe it's the voice of my mom saying, 'You've always got to be nice to people.' I look at it as saying it's going to be fun. Those people are going to be really, really happy.

Rep. Ure

I think you find more tattoos right now than maybe even World War II. It's become an epidemic, and I don't have a problem with that if you're over 18.

Joe Miller

He did a good job running the offense. Howard had a few transition baskets in the run (to erase the 16-point deficit).

Roger Ailes

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

Elton Brand

In the past, we might have folded, but we erased that 12-point lead and we're up three at halftime. It's a great, great feeling. It's much different than before.

Henry Cavill

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

David Boyer

Then it erased it and wrote it again, and did it all day. People loved it.

Rachel Carson

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

Rachel Carson

This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.

Polykarp Kusch

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

Mwai Kibaki

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.