Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

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.'

Andre Gide

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Aneurin Bevan

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Anais Nin

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Andrew Wyeth

What you have to do is break all the rules.

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.

Corazon Aquino

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Colin Powell

Have a vision. Be demanding.

Damien Hirst

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

E. B. White

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Andre Maurois

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Ambrose Bierce

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.