Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

James Boswell

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

James Frey

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

J. William Fulbright

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

J. William Fulbright

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

Iyanla Vanzant

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

Iyanla Vanzant

When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

Immanuel Kant

God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

Immanuel Kant

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

Immanuel Kant

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

Herbert Hoover

A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.

Herbert Hoover

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Erwin McManus

It's not your freedom to choose that makes you free. It's what you choose in that freedom that makes you free.

Fisher Ames

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Henry Miller

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

Fulton J. Sheen

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

Frank Murphy

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Gary Paulsen

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

George Jean Nathan

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Chris Patten

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Chris Patten

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

George W. Bush

I love freedom of speech.

George W. Bush

Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity.

George W. Bush

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.

George W. Bush

Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans - the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: "It rang as if it meant something."

George W. Bush

We can't impose freedom, but we can eliminate roadblocks to freedom, and to allow free societies to develop.

George W. Bush

Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.

George W. Bush

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

George W. Bush

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

George Steiner

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.