Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

We are living in the 21st century. It is time we respect our elephants, give them their freedom and put them in a sanctuary.

James Madison

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Archibald MacLeish

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Up by one with two free throws. We could have won it.

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.

Walter Lippmann

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

Dannel Malloy

Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.

Lord Acton

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Ben Shapiro

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There's a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.

Voltaire

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

We could have won by a lot more tonight. We just missed too many shots and free throws.

We could have probably won like we did the first time if we made our free throws and inside shots -- but that's a lot of ifs. We were lucky to get out of there with a win. We struggled and still won, so that's a good thing.

We just didn't make our free throws again. When you miss free throws, it puts pressure on your defense. They made theirs and we didn't make ours.

Rupert Grint

In terms of filming, yes, it really does feel over now. There's a real sense of freedom now. It's a good time to finish, I think. As much as I'm going to miss it I'm ready to move on and do different things.

Malala Yousafzai

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

We were giving them free points by making errors.

We were still right there, in position to win the game. You just have to make plays. They made their free throws.

We work on our free throws every day. I don't know, I guess free-throw shooting is boring. But I have read every book, watched every tape, and we still shoot 50 percent. I think maybe we'll stop for awhile.

Sarah Miles

We work on free throws every day in practice. We really concentrate on them as a team, and it paid off.

We wore them down. It was a matter of our conditioning and our kids stepped up and hit their free throws.

Mark Zandi

We'll see how much of a free trader

We battled all night. We just missed some free throws and had some turnovers at the end and we were never able to get it closer.

A. J. Liebling

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

A. J. P. Taylor

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

Abdoulaye Wade

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Abbie Hoffman

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Abbie Hoffman

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Abbie Hoffman

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Adrienne Rich

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?