Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.

Alex Comfort

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

Aldous Huxley

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Aldous Huxley

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Alexander Herzen

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

Alexander Hamilton

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Adlai E. Stevenson

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

Adlai E. Stevenson

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A hungry man is not a free man.

Jim Carrey

The truth will set you free.

David Anderson

What we're trying to do is present freedom through the lens of the First Amendment, but not in a way that we're telling people what to think.

Douglas MacArthur

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

Douglas MacArthur

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

Don Marquis

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

Claude Bernard

The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.

Dalai Lama

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

Desmond Tutu

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'

Andrei Sakharov

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Andrew Cohen

Freedom has no history.

Angela Davis

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Anna Howard Shaw

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

D. H. Lawrence

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

D. H. Lawrence

I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.