Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Paul

America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If we want to be worthy of their legacy, we must resist the rush toward ever-increasing state control of our society. Otherwise, our own government will become a greater threat to our freedoms than any foreign terrorist.

Ron Paul

Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!

Ron Paul

If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What you need to do is attack their benefits: no free education, no free subsidies, no citizenship, no birthright citizenship.

Ron Paul

There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.

Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Rosa Luxemburg

Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

Rosa Parks

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Rosa Parks

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Stockwell Day

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Stokely Carmichael

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Rudyard Kipling

What stands if freedom fall?

Samuel Johnson

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

Ronald Reagan

We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

Ronald Reagan

Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

Robert Southey

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

Stephen Covey

It comes from within.

Stephen Covey

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

Stephen Covey

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

Stephen Covey

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

Stephen Covey

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

Stephen Covey

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

Stephen Covey

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

Viktor E. Frankl

No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

Viktor E. Frankl

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Utah Phillips

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

Thomas Merton

A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.

Thomas Carlyle

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Stanley Baldwin

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

Pope John Paul II

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.

Pope John Paul II

Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

Pope Francis

May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.