Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Reed

As a consequence, Americans are more comfortable in India because of human freedom and democracy.

Mary Gauthier

The most important thing I got from philosophy was that there are no answers. There's freedom in knowing that you don't have to know it all ... which is why to me a song should end with a question, not an answer.

Pablo Neruda

Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing.

Paul Murphy

safe in the knowledge that the honor and memory of those men who gave their lives for freedom on the Western Front has been preserved.

Ralph Hall

President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

Jack Clark

This is sacred ground today. The price of freedom is truly visible here today.

Paul Silva

This is something we'll stop and do for you so that you can have the same freedom that we have.

Matt Mullenweg

You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code.

Ayn Rand

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Aristotle

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

Aesop

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Andy Rooney

One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

Thomas Jefferson

To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.

Thomas Jefferson

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson

I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.

Thomas Jefferson

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Thomas Jefferson

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

Stephen Jay Gould

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

Ann Coulter

Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about 'McCarthyism.'

Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Alexander Hamilton

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Claire Danes

The first time I realised I was patriotic was after September 11th.

Andrew Jackson

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Richard Marcinko

Shoot first and ask questions not at all