Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Phillips

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Bill Gross

With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.

Thomas Jefferson

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Thomas Jefferson

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

George Washington

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

James Bennetts

I think what we're doing is going back to the way things were before Independence Air.

Jon Oringer

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

Boris Kodjoe

I think that women need men and that men need women and we need each other and that independence and meeting somebody is not mutually exclusive.

Rory Bremner

Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.

Samuel West

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.

Willard Gaylin

All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

Walter Annenberg

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

Samuel Smiles

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

Van Jones

Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

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.