Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Franken

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Dan Ariely

When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

Billy Connolly

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

Charles Spurgeon

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.

Edvard Munch

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Cicely Tyson

Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one

Roy Blount, Jr.

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

Benito Mussolini

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

Benito Mussolini

Family - see Fascist State.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Robert Higgs

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive threats, and sooner or later the horrors with which they menace mankind invariably come to pass.

Tony Blair

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

Remy de Gourmont

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

Swami Vivekananda

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.